Underground Politics is Alive in both China and the U.S.

 A long article in the NY Times reviewed an underground publishing enterprise that published in China during the worst and most repressive time in its history. A handful of students recorded the starvation that was happening and told of the repressive actions by the government to stamp out solutions to the problems. Today, with another repressive regime, there are underground historians publishing information the ruling party does not want circulated. 

There were underground groups operating against both Hitler and Stalin. All during the decades before Roe made abortion legal there were secret individuals and groups doing abortions across the U.S.  In Chicago, an anti-abortion city, the Jane Group, staffed with volunteers who learned how to give women free abortions did tens of thousands of abortions.

Bits of information is leading out about underground groups providing abortion meds and arranging for abortions in states like Texas and Mississippi. While the cost of getting abortions has gone up a lot for women in anti-abortion states the number of abortions seems to be mostly unchanged. The underground has against defeated the old white men. 

There is not much acknowledgement of the underground and how it will prevent the government from advancing against various groups. It was impossible to stop individuals from making and selling illegal beer and whiskey back during prohibition. The public did not support in any big prohibition just as it does not support current anti-abortion or anti gay rights.

Underground groups never have the money or numbers to match the government. But they can raise the cost and often that leads to victory.