Over Half of All Abortions are from Pills
Use of medicines that cause abortions has been increasing. Just a few years ago medicines were used for about 1/3rd of abortions. Now it is over 1/2. It seems inevitable this will rise.
The current experience with abortions is so much like this country's experiment banning alcohol consumption. With alcohol, as with abortion, it began with some holier-than-thou segment of the population spouting religious nonsense. Then they switched to something they thought would hide their religious and control motives. They said alcohol caused people to miss work. It ruined marriages. It had to be outlawed and prohibition was passed.
Shortly after prohibition was put into place illegal production and sale of beer and whiskey began to flourish. Crooks who had been in other schemes of crime welcomed prohibition and began to profit. In the Middlewest, alcoholic drink production in and around Winsor, Canada, next to Detroit, ramped up and was hauled to the big population centers like Chicago. Al Capone and friends operated almost in the open. Transactions were in cash with few records to verify the deals.
The book I read recently said supplies of booze were not always reliable. Law enforcement could catch someone now and then. But law enforcement was not given more money or personnel, so enforcement was not effective. As soon as one channel of product was disrupted by an arrest another would open up quickly. Illegal bars might run out for only a day or two. Much of Capone's time was taken up making new deals when others were shut down. One thing he could count on were customers ready to buy beer.
Our more recent experience has been with drugs from Mexico, Central and South America. I've read our billions spent on stopping the flow has had almost no affect.
The two most anti-abortion states, Mississippi and Texas, are available to Mexican sources of abortion medicines. Who would distribute them? The same people who import drugs today and imported alcohol a generation ago.
It seems Texas has given “others” tacit custody of the fetus in a woman’s uterus. It may not be far fetched that eventually a pregnant woman in Texas using an at home medication regimen to abort a fetus after the six weeks redline is considered someone who “aides and abets” an illegal abortion? Perhaps she herself could be liable for $10,000 in damages in a civil suit. If the forced-birth zealots are allowed to take things even further, one can envision legal consequences for a women transporting a fetus across state lines for a surgical abortion. All to hijack a woman’s very personal decisions about reproduction. She’s become a second class citizen by virtue of her fertility. Now that’s right to life.
ReplyDeleteExcellent observations, Ardy B. I've never heard an anti-abortion zealot say their goal is anything but a total ban on all abortions. To get to that goal women have to be watched by government during an entire pregnancy. All claims of miscarriage will need to be investigated. The Russians are coming here, but they are us.
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