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The end of legal abortion in the south? (Original Post) PumpkinAle Jun 2014 OP
This will happen edhopper Jun 2014 #1
EXACTLY!!!!! onecaliberal Jun 2014 #4
+1 Liberal_in_LA Jun 2014 #7
as long as women choose to live in texas. redruddyred Jun 2014 #11
Wendy Davis would disagree. KamaAina Jun 2014 #12
probably that law degree helps quite a bit. redruddyred Jun 2014 #14
What it won't do is end abortion. Brickbat Jun 2014 #2
We'll start seeing women being hospitalized or dying due to back alley abortions, Arkansas Granny Jun 2014 #6
It seems like abortion rights are under attack in a lot of places. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2014 #3
Damn, I wish I was rich. LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #5
I like the way you think! Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2014 #8
It's actually worse than the graphic because it leaves out southern states, like NC mnhtnbb Jun 2014 #9
Not surprised at all. I expect the body count sufrommich Jun 2014 #10
It is not just the South, Ohio's GOP legislature and governor have done this in Ohio. greatlaurel Jun 2014 #13

onecaliberal

(35,244 posts)
4. EXACTLY!!!!!
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 02:40 PM
Jun 2014

Women will continue to get what we vote for, or failure to vote will ensure the same outcome.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
12. Wendy Davis would disagree.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:22 PM
Jun 2014

As would the out lesbian mayor of Houston.

Molly Ivins would have, too.

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
14. probably that law degree helps quite a bit.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:32 PM
Jun 2014

it's the brown immigrant women who get raped on the job after all. er, poor brown immigrant women.
am not sure why wendy puts up with it. last I heard texas lawmakers were passing around pictures of breasts during sessions, because that's humor.

Arkansas Granny

(31,747 posts)
6. We'll start seeing women being hospitalized or dying due to back alley abortions,
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 03:30 PM
Jun 2014

just like in the "good old days" when abortion was illegal.

LuvNewcastle

(16,978 posts)
5. Damn, I wish I was rich.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 02:47 PM
Jun 2014

There would be no one in Mississippi who lived more than 50 miles from an abortion clinic, and the abortions would be free to all. I dislike fundies so much that I would do this just to piss them off. Just thinking about it puts a big smile on my face.

mnhtnbb

(31,791 posts)
9. It's actually worse than the graphic because it leaves out southern states, like NC
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 03:57 PM
Jun 2014

which have passed similar legislation. Of the 15 clinics providing abortion services in NC,
only 1 is a licensed ambulatory surgical center and it is going to be closed soon.

http://www.carolinapublicpress.org/18263/as-nc-agency-faces-abortion-rules-deadline-new-asheville-clinic-plans-to-meet-potential-regs

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
10. Not surprised at all. I expect the body count
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 04:00 PM
Jun 2014

from botched back alley abortions will become commonplace.We've dialed back the clock to the 1950s as far as women's reproductive choices in huge swaths of this country are concerned.

greatlaurel

(2,010 posts)
13. It is not just the South, Ohio's GOP legislature and governor have done this in Ohio.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:32 PM
Jun 2014

The Ohio GOP has used Ohio as a testing ground for these laws. The trap laws have been enacted and signed by our Governor John Kasich, who believes he will be president. What has happened in Ohio has received very little attention nationally. Women have protested, but it has not slowed the vile monsters from proposing even more draconian anti-women laws. Recently, H.B. 351 was proposed and it would ban all hormonal birth control and IUD's and require women to pay for abortions to save their lives, if they were dying during pregnancy.

This was proposed by Rep. John Becker from the Cincinnati suburbs, but he says he is not a doctor. What a vile monster he is. He most have very deep seated hatred of all women.

http://www.plunderbund.com/2014/06/09/hb-351-is-hate-speech-aimed-at-women/

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/06/04/bill-would-restrict-abortion-coverage.html

Ohio's Governor and Legislature are owned completely by ALEC and their corporate masters.

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