I cannot believe that this legal right is still being threatened!
I recognize that this is such a triggering topic for me, something that I feel so close at heart, that I probably cannot write about it in a wholly balanced way. So I won’t write much.
I do believe it appalling, though, that the right to abortion is still being threatened in a country that is supposed to be civilized.
“Pro-life” groups: for the life of whom? Isn’t the mother’s or woman’s life also a life, an important life, a life to be protected, as well as that of the embryo?
And why should the personal — often religious — convictions or ideals of a section of society dictate the laws governing other persons & their lives, more than 50% of the population? If they don’t believe it right to perform abortion, they are free to abstain from it; but those who have other personal convictions need to have the freedom to perform abortion in a safe, humane, scientifically/medically reasonable, regulated and fair way: they have the right to that right.
Last but not least, let’s remember that making abortion illegal would only increase social differences further, realistically having an increasing negative impact for those persons who are already underprivileged, threatening even further the lives, livelihoods, and health of women, especially from underprivileged communities, who are already struggling and/or discriminated (as historical data show).
The Little Prince and the Fox 