Abortion: Whose Choice?
On this episode of Now & Then, “Abortion: Whose Choice?” Heather and Joanne discuss Texas’ Senate Bill 8, one of several controversial new “heartbeat” laws that limit access to abortion. They also talk about the history of abortion from the colonial period to the present: the surprising availability of abortion until the mid-19th century, the physician-led campaign to ban abortion, and the GOP’s decision in the early 1970s to embrace the “pro-life” movement. Who gets to decide the future of reproductive rights? What role has politics played in the anti-abortion movement? And how can the constitutional right to abortion be preserved during these uncertain times?
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The question that the abortions rights activists never answer is "how many days, weeks, months, years after conception should abortion be legal?" Until and unless there is a united and common supported answer there should forever be opposition to abortion.
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Kansas is getting into lock step with Texas. Is this legislative activity centrally coordinated to overturn Roe v Wade?
I’ll just note this, per the online Sunflower State Journal: in about a year the public in “Kansas will vote on a constitutional amendment that would reverse a state Supreme Court ruling that found that abortion is a right protected by the state constitution.”