Abortions are Going Underground. Reversing Roe will not Stop Them


What evidence we have indicates the number of abortions before Roe, when abortions were illegal in many states, was about the same as it became after Roe made them legal. Now, anti women religious groups are passing bills again making abortions expensive and hard to acquire. Pharmaceutical abortions are growing and can be supervised on line. The coronavirus crisis added development of internet access and mailed pill pipeline. It is now ready in the Roe shutdown states.

It is said on various sites anti abortion activists are "worried" about governments' inability to stop abortion pills from being easily available. Why did they ever think they could make a big dent in the number of abortions? They were not successful before Roe, they will not be successful now.

Anti abortion legislation and enforcement can make abortions more expensive and require more time and effort to obtain. But the math of abortion versus the math of raising a child make the cost of abortion mostly not important. The cost of raising a child is approaching $200,000. If the cost of an abortion goes from $400 to $800 or even a thousand abortion still wins by a landslide. 

Everyone who works at an abortion clinic says the same thing about women who show up there. They say these women are "determined." This being the case one would assume they will find the pills they need for abortions. They will also find a source of surgical abortion is that is required. 

It seems clear what anti abortion activists want to accomplish. They want women to know they are disliked and need to be controlled. This is true both the men and the women activists. Ever since the tale of Eve and The Original Sin became common there has been a perceived need for women to be controlled. 

During prohibition, illegal liquor was widely available. It seems to me producing and moving whiskey to market would have been far more risky and difficult than selling abortion medicine is today. We all know prohibition never stood a chance up against the public which wanted to right to buy it. Alcohol came from many sources and speakeasys were everywhere. 

The abortion version of the speakeasy is about to open. 

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