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by digby
This is working out well for the anti-abortion zealots. It's not that women are no longer getting abortions. But they are suffering a lot more. And perhaps that's the point:
A Huffington Post survey last year found that since 2010, at least 54 abortion providers across 27 states had either closed or stopped performing the procedure. Sixteen more shut their doors after Texas lawmakers passed some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country last summer. A federal appeals court upheld two of the new restrictions in a ruling last week.
As a result, researchers and women's health advocates say, women today are resorting to many of the same dangerous methods they relied on in the pre-Roe era: seeking out illegal abortion providers, as Karen Hulsey did, or attempting risky self-abortion procedures.
In 2014, four decades after the Supreme Court upheld a woman's right to choose, pregnant women once again find themselves crossing the border to Mexico and haunting back-alleys in search of medical care.
Of course they are. There was never any doubt that this would happen. Women will get abortions. There is no stopping it. The only question is whether they will endanger their health or die getting them.
Read the whole story, it's devastating. I can hardly believe this is happening in 2014. I was a young teen when Roe was first decided. And I'm pretty old now. Never let anyone say that you can't go backwards. Even with all the pharmacological and medical advances, I'm seeing it happen in my own lifetime.
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