In the late 80s.
We blocked him. Those born after Roe are into their 40s, nearing 50.
They are grandmothers now. There are three or four generations of young women who do not know what those hangars are symbolic of. Prior to Roe, we had more dead women. The GOP wants more dead women, and more white babies.
Fencing out brown people, and forcing all the white girls to carry to term (do you really think the GOP is worried about Black or Latino Abortion rates? Puh-lease....) All because whites are just 59% of the American population.
When I was in high school, 81-85, girls still mysteriously went away for sophomore or junior year, even good girls, even the local Mormon football coach's daughter, who miscarried. She and I were friends, going back to 6th grade.
The difference is those girls could keep their children. Prior to Roe, unwed motherhood was the bane of American existence. So tax policy supported affluent, older, likely more republican leaning childless white couples to assume parenthood for young women whose fertility was inconvenient; forced relinquishment, under the guise of helpful social workers convincing parents to seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem, often paying homes for unwed mothers to keep their wayward daughters who embarrassed them. Of course, the young fathers had no rights, then.
These Dominionist Christo fascists in Texas and Mississippi, and the rest of the backward looking conservative rural landscape better be real careful what they wish for.
I can't believe I have to refight the same battles my mother(s) and grandmothers fought, going back to the vote in the 20s.
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really, really pissed off.
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