re: #166 HappyWarrior

I’m old enough to remember when opposition to abortion except in cases of rape and incest was the extent of how anti-choice R’s would be outside some really then fringy types like Alan Keyes. The Anti-Choice movement has grown more radical with time.

Lucky (?) for you, you’re not old enough to remember when single women couldn’t get birth control; and when the only way most women could get abortions was to meet an abortion doctor on a street corner, cash in hand, and go to some undisclosed location in the dead of night. And that’s if they could afford to—the others had to go the self-induced route—and the coat-hanger isn’t just a dramatic image—it was really the instrument of choice in many desperate cases.

Sadly, there’s even a few generations of women who don’t remember those times—which is why they’re not up in arms about this bullshit.

I know many in your generation think we’re “old crones,” but we’ve been to this movie before and we know how it ends. (I’m not picking on you, HappyWarrior—I know your heart is in the right place—but this anti-abortion shit really freaks me out)