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The importance of Roe v. Wade.
AGAIN.
For those who may not appreciate what it was like before.
People have forgotten or never experienced what it was like before Roe v. Wade. When I was in college, in the sixties, I opened the door to our bathroom, late one night, and found my roommate's girlfriend lying on the floor covered in a pool of blood. A brilliant, young, Chinese-American woman who had just returned from Mexico, where she had just undergone a panicked, spur-of-the moment, back-alley procedure that had tragically gone wrong. She survived but this was not unusual. For any race or class. It's an old horror story that over the years has been forgotten. To those who claim they are pro-life, it is easier to be morally opposed to abortion when that freedom has been taken for granted as established law for a generation, easier than to have gone through what it was like when it is denied. No one is in favor of abortion. It is not about abortion. It is about the RIGHT to live one's life. Banning abortion does not end abortion. It only makes it a punishable crime. It only makes it dangerous, to the point of death. So when one hears that Roe v. Wade legalizes "baby killing", ask them if they have ever lived through what it was like before.