I'm reading The War on Choice: The Right Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back by Gloria Feldt's right now.
In her book she talks a lot about how the Right-Wing folks are passing laws trying to make abortion extremely difficult for people to obtain rather than directly attacking the issue of abortion itself.
To me this approach itself suggests that not even the right-wings believe they can logically push their agenda through normal law channels that would directly address the issue...such as in the Supreme Court. So instead, safety is made the chief argument for all their reasoning.
To illustrate some Right-Wing hypocrisy...just as safety and non-existent reasons have been made the chief national reason for a war (keep in mind this was due to a case incident on 9/11) against terrorists who
might strike again if our defense was choppy, abortion has been deemed a safety issue by Right-Wings when practiced for the infrequent incidents. To me, their reasoning is totally debunked by the fact that birth
is (not might be) a safety concern for young females and probably more so than having an abortion.
But just as our safety is in danger from terrorists who bomb our country, our safety is compromised by laws that make having abortions extremely difficult to obtain.
Even if it did boil down to conservatives taking away the accessibility of abortions, there's really no way they can stop people from inducing them on their own. Worst-case scenario is that this turns out like prohibition, people doing the deed behind closed doors.
The Right-Wing actions regarding the new law are about as dumb as making suicide illegal. No one can regulate your body without physically forcing you...and even then, the public doesn't want to spend the money on it. We'd be Big Brother if we even tried.
PLUS, I bet that if you throw more birth control, affordable abortions, and sex ed at the poor rather than pushing them onto the early single parenting path, you right-wings would have less people going into the welfare system.
So here's a link to an article I read on CNN the other day about sex education making teens aware of AIDS and birth control.
"Experts point out that teen sexual activity has dropped as use of condoms increased -- both largely due to fear of AIDS."
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/ ... index.html
"If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties."
-Barack Obama