AZ Abortion Ban still on the books

[kairos12]

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/07/07/arizona-still-has-law-banning-abortion-its-books-supreme-court-anthony-kennedy-donald-trump/760335002/

snip:
If the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe V. Wade, the impact in Arizona could be significant and swift, activists say. Arizona since at least the early 1960s has had laws on its books banning abortion and restricting birth control.

Those laws are not enforced, but they were never removed.

I post this as information for all DUers as the accompanying map shows how some (but not all) States stack up if/when Roe is overturned.

Fuck Drumpt and his Handmaid Russian Judges.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. "Handmaid's Tale", Gilead

states like Arizona will return women to the days before 1973. Of course, the for profit adoption agencies will be delighted.

As a woman it is very frightening to remember the taboos on even discussing birth control in public and abortions were technically illegal. I say technically because as a college student in the late 60's, early 70's, women with money could obtain an abortion from "underground" MDs, licensed to practice. For the poor girls, it was shame, a forced marriage, leaving school to support a child or back alley coat hangers, often followed by death or permanent injury. There were also rape victims forced to bear the child of their attackers.

I will not let these bastards get me down. I do feel like every hard fought progressive progress toward empowering women is under attack.