There was a NY Times piece in the magazine about 8 months ago that looked at El Salvador where abortion is criminalized and the impact upon women's lives. Doctors are supposed to call the police if they suspect a patient has had a back alley abortion, and doctors providing the abortion can be jailed. It a was truly frightening glimpse at the reality that some women face.
In contrast, there was a piece in the Atlantic Monthly that discussed that despite all the rhetoric about wanting to ban abortion, the conservatives in power don't really want that to happen because it would destroy what is possibly the most polarizing issue in American politics and thus negate abortion being a rallying point for the religious right. Let's hope this is true. I'd rather endless debates than lack of choice.
The only thought I've given to the criminalization though is that I would protest and work with the cause to get abortion legal again, but I never really considered until the article about El Salvador that people would be jailed. It makes one take pause.
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Date: 2007-07-30 23:03 (UTC)In contrast, there was a piece in the Atlantic Monthly that discussed that despite all the rhetoric about wanting to ban abortion, the conservatives in power don't really want that to happen because it would destroy what is possibly the most polarizing issue in American politics and thus negate abortion being a rallying point for the religious right. Let's hope this is true. I'd rather endless debates than lack of choice.
The only thought I've given to the criminalization though is that I would protest and work with the cause to get abortion legal again, but I never really considered until the article about El Salvador that people would be jailed. It makes one take pause.