The poor have pretty much lost the "right" to abortion in the U.S. Their last defense is Planned Parenthood...where that exists. For the rest it's coathangers. It's not just that they can't afford a doctor; it's that fewer and fewer doctors are doing it.
Joanna
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>> The key words here are "legal in at least some cases."
>>
>>
>> Yup. I suspect this is how the usual American preference to split the
>> difference manifests itself on this issue, which looks like an
>> either/or thing on first glance. The "in some cases" position allows
>> the holder to avoid the extremes and hug the safe middle - even if it
>> is a lot of mush.
>>
>> Doug
>
>
> Some of the rich are pro-choice women, and some rich men have
> pro-choice partners or pro-choice themselves. The Republican Party
> won't take away rich women's right to abortion. What the Republican
> and Democratic Parties have and will continue to allow is more and
> more restrictions on working-class women's ability to have abortion or
> give birth and raise children.
>
> What we need but don't really have is a working-class feminist
> movement defending comprehensive reproductive rights and freedoms --
> both women's right to have abortion freely and women's right to give
> birth and raise children with as much government and community support
> as possible.