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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Law - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial today on back-alley abortions
Today's Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial concludes:
When safe, legal abortions are no longer available, the horrific back-alley abortions that preceded Roe v. Wade will return. * * *The pro-life movement has focused its efforts on making access to safe abortions as difficult as possible. They have advocated laws requiring waiting periods and mandatory ultrasound pictures, as if the desperate women haven’t already agonized over their unplanned pregnancies.
Those same opponents have pushed restrictions on clinics and abortion providers in an effort to drive them out of business, refusing to accept the fact that outlawing abortion will never eliminate its practice.
[Philadelphia illegal abortionist Kermit Gosnell's] alleged crimes should sicken and sadden every American, but they also should serve as a reminder and lesson of what happened before abortion was safe and legal – and as a warning of what could happen once again.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 26, 2011 02:35 PM
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