re: Abortions

Fresno CA

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"Yea, bummer. Back to illegal and deadly abortions. You know that women will still get pregnant and seek abortions. Better to have a sterile environment than a dirty coat hanger in some kind of dingy environment.." The whole reason contraceptives were created was to stop those kinds of abortions. (No, they were created to prevent pregnancy.) Women have great access to contraception. (You can lead a horse to water, blah blah blah...) Their body their choice, abstain, pill or hanger. The choice is theirs. (Exactly. The hanger. Women wouldn't have to choose that abhorrent method if they could bet a legal and safe abortion.) I assume you know who Margaret Sanger was. "Sanger also believed in eugenics — an inherently racist and ableist ideology that labeled certain people unfit to have children. Eugenics is the theory that society can be improved through planned breeding for “desirable traits” like intelligence and industriousness. Margaret Sanger was so intent on her mission to advocate for birth control that she chose to align herself with ideologies and organizations that were explicitly ableist and white supremacist. (Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives.)