The Supreme Court is taking us back to the not so good old days
If you’re from my generation, these stories will sound familiar. They may even be close to your own story.
When I was in college I knew two women who had unintentional pregnancies. Both were still teenagers. Neither of them was ready for motherhood. Both decided to have abortions. In the very early 1970s, it wasn’t easy to have that procedure. You couldn’t walk into your local clinic. Both had to travel. One of them went to New York. The other crossed the border into Mexico.
At my first job after college, I met a man who was the boyfriend of a co-worker. He became a friend and as I got to know him, I learned he had a younger sister who had died a few years earlier. She was the victim of a back-alley abortion that went bad. She felt desperate, didn’t tell her family and tried to handle this on her own. She was dead at twenty years old.
Roe v Wade became law in 1973. Had any of these pregnancies occurred a couple of years later their stories would have had different endings. My friend’s sisters may be alive today.
Yesterday, Politico broke a story that a leaked draft shows the Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe. This won’t end abortions. It will make obtaining one much more difficult, as well as illegal in about half of the country. People who have to means to do so will be traveling to places like New York and Mexico, again. Others without resources will be forced into having dangerous back-alley abortions, again.
I wonder what the people involved in the stories are thinking today. I know they realize that we are about to go back to the not-so-good old days.
Type your email address in the box and click the “create subscription” button. My list is completely spam free, and you can opt out at any time.
Filed under:
News
Tags:
Abortion, Supreme Court
Meet The Blogger
Howard Moore
Every five years or so I decide to update this section. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for close to ten years. The last time I did this I was close to sixty years old. Now I’m just a few months away from the big 7-ZERO. Scary AF!!! I’m pretty sure I won’t be doing an update when I hit 80, but you never know. But until then, lets just be grateful.
Subscribe by Email
Completely spam free, opt out any time.
Tags
Donald Trump (205)
Parkinson”s Disease (50)
Coronavirus (34)
Chicago Cubs (33)
Covid-19 (30)
Paul McCartney (28)
John Lennon (26)
Cancer (24)
Melanoma (23)
Eric Clapton (23)
Categories
Music (393)
Wellness (333)
News (320)
Health (266)
Satire (221)
humor (206)
Uncategorized (190)
Pop Music (182)
Parkinsons (159)
Entertainment:: Music (146)
Latest on ChicagoNow
The Supreme Court is taking us back to the not so good old days
posted today at 12:11 am
Spotlight on thirteen comedy shows: Monday, May 2-Sunday, May 8, 2022
posted Monday at 7:03 pm
Should we send TucKKKer Carlson and Perjury Taylor Greene to Gitmo?
posted Monday at 2:34 pm
Cookbooks : One Old and One New
posted Monday at 12:23 pm
Daily Cubs Minors Recap: Walker Powell, Adam Laskey, and Jake Reindl combine on 3rd no-hitter in Pelicans history; Canario and Washer homer again; Alcantara and Mora hit their first
posted Monday at 10:27 am
Posts from related blogs
Improv Class For The Soul
Most recent post: LIVING LIFE, REST, WORK (S)AUTHENTICALLY
Purple Reigns: How to Live a Full Life with Lupus
Most recent post: April is Autism Acceptance Month
Spiritual and Physical Wellness
Most recent post: Invest in You
More from Lifestyle: Wellness
Read these ChicagoNow blogs
Cubs Den
Pets in need of homes
Hammervision
Read these ChicagoNow Bloggers
Carole Kuhrt Brewer
Dennis Byrne
LeaGrover
About ChicagoNow
•
FAQs
•
Advertise
•
Recent posts RSS
•
Privacy policy (Updated)
•
Comment policy
•
Terms of service
•
Chicago Tribune Archives
•
Do not sell my personal info
©2022 CTMG – A Chicago Tribune website –
Crafted by the News Apps team