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In reply to the discussion: Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police [View all]CTyankee
(63,901 posts)same way with Roe (hence the dispute Ginsburg has with the decision, but women were literally dying and the Roe decision stopped that in its tracks).
In my own state, CT was the last state to keep a law prohibiting birth control. Activists went to Hartford year after year after year with testimony from doctors, citizens and civil libertarians. The state lege didn't budge as it was in the thrall of the Roman Catholic Church at the time. So it took activism and then the hammer of (ultimately) the Griswold SC decision.
AS for Roe, I suppose it would have been ideal for everyone to wait until we all joined hands and sang Kumbaya, but women were suffering and dying needlessly. After Roe was decided, the deaths from illegal, unsafe abortions dropped dramatically and sharply. The struggle is not over as we've seen, but with Roe there was no other way unless we allowed women to continue suffering and dying. In the face of that reality an existential choice had to be made and it was. You can read the history at the Alan Guttmacher Institute's website.
I think we've reached critical mass here the same way with gun safety.