Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 06:52 PM by LiberalPartisan
I'm convinced that two years hence Roe will be overturned, placing all abortion laws at the state level. What do folks here envision the US to be like after Roe?
I can see many of the Southern states enacting laws so stringent as to be in effect total bans on abortion. But abortion will remain safe and legal in many other states. What I can also envision is a forced birth state charging a woman with murder if she went out of state to have an abortion in a free state. Will an underground railraod develop? Will physicians be monitored? Will the sale of an early pregnancy test trigger a visit by the police, and the woman's name entered into a registry for regular checkups?
I fear the world depicted in The Handmaid's Tale is becoming a reality.
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