How many DUers remember life before Roe v Wade?

[RandySF]

It might be time to give our younger members some survival tips.

[Squinch]

1. Jane's Friends are going to have to get busy again.

[handmade34]

2. I have been trying for years...

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44552/when-a-miscarriage-becomes-a-crime/

"...the overturning of Roe v. Wade... the kind of aggressive, state-enforced violence against women and trans people that we expect from totalitarian regimes: women forced to carry every fertilized egg to term, at all costs, and imprisoned or worse for not complying...

[Control-Z]

3. I will tell my story again.

I've been thinking about it but putting it off. I'll have to find the time to sit down and write.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I remember when I was about 12 or 13 and a classmate confided in me that her sister

had gotten pregnant, but she went to see an old woman who lived in a shack way back off the highway who had "killed the baby" for her. I was pretty naive at the time, but it was pretty commonly known that "Aunt So and So" could take care of problems like that.

This was in the late 50's in rural SW Missouri. The bc pill hadn't come out yet and even when it did, in the mid 60's, unmarried women couldn't get it. Many of the girls I went to high school with had to quit school when they got pregnant. Some married, some didn't, some went away for a while and came back home without babies. Lots of young couples married hurriedly and many "preemie" babies were born.

There is no way that I want young women to go through that again.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Stories like this were the norm in

Poorer Rural Areas. Pack a suitcase and hop on the Greyhound.

[SoCalDem]

19. In 1970, I needed my husband's "okay" before the doctor would give me the pill

and when I applied for a job, I was "grilled" about my family "plans".. The bank didn;t want to "waste" time training me if I planned to quit & have a baby...( my wage was 2.75 an hour, and I was not a "high value" employee)

This was in Indiana

[workinclasszero]

5. They will make you carry a dead fetus...to your own grave soon

Woman says Walgreens refused her prescription

Nicole Arteaga has criticized Walgreens, saying a pharmacist at the chain refused to fill her prescription for a medicine prescribed to induce miscarriage after she was told her 9-week-old fetus had stopped developing.Source: CNN

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2018/06/25/woman-denied-miscarriage-prescription-nicole-arteaga-sot-nr.cnn

MSM: But for God's sake keep being polite as the GOP turns America into a fascist hellscape!

[Brother Buzz]

6. Keep you passport current

Back in the day, you didn't need a passport to travel to Mexico; Mexican abortions were perceived as being much safer then back alley jobs by the West Coast middle class.

[workinclasszero]

10. I'm sure thats gonna help a teenager

working part time at the dollar general in flyover country

[RandySF]

12. Or poor and working class women.

[Brother Buzz]

17. I believe they will find options....

albeit dicey; the drug addled medical school dropout will be in high cotton.

[Coventina]

7. I was an unwanted pregnancy from pre-Roe.

My mother was 25 years old, single, professional woman.

When she went to the doctor to confirm her pregnancy, he told her he could arrange for her to take a "vacation" in Japan (where abortion was legal).

She was a Bible-thumping holy roller, and stormed out of there and went to a new doctor.

When I heard the story, I felt bad for the doctor. I'm glad that he was there to give options to women who needed them. I'm just sorry my mother treated him so poorly.

I hate to think we'll be returning to those days.

[Bettie]

8. I was a little kid

but I've read many accounts of life before that decision.

We can't go back to that.

[workinclasszero]

11. We are going back to it for sure

Kennedy retiring now is giving Trump and the religious right the power to do it.

Period. Count on it.

After that will be the death penalty for any woman caught doing so. Count on it!

[Bettie]

13. I know

It is depressing.

I'll have to find out how to join an organization to help young women get the care they need.

[eleny]

9. They're going to need it, Randy

[Luz]

14. I turned 15 that year. Going into my late teens and early

twenties knowing if mistakes were made, I could seek help in my own state. My older sister had to travel thousands of miles to find a legal state when she needed help.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I certainly remember.

[roamer65]

18. It will fall to the states if they reverse it.

There will be states like CA, WA, NY and the New England ones that will maintain legality along with Canada.

[Totally Tunsie]

20. My greatest fear when Dump was elected was that we'd regress 50 years

in matters of abortion, gender identity and marriage equality. Today is a sad day, indeed, because we just took many steps back in that direction.

What next, prohibition? If Dump doesn't drink, none of us should drink. Wouldn't surprise me.

[raven mad]

21. Alaska legalized abortion before Roe. n/t