Abortion battle lines drawn in Mississippi

[donsu]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4792428.stm

Politicians in the US state of Mississippi are pushing forward with plans to ban abortion. The anti-abortion movement says it feels the climate is right for change. In Mississippi 4000 abortions are performed every year in the state's one remaining clinic.

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Arriving here is an intimidating, even shocking, experience. Anti-abortion campaigners hold up enormous and gruesome pictures of aborted foetuses. They stop every car going into the car park and try to persuade those inside to wind down their windows and take their literature.

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Most appear to be under 25, virtually all are African American, and all sit in silence and stare at the TV in the corner of the room.

This is now the only clinic left in Mississippi where a woman can get an abortion. It costs up to $400, but staff fear the service they offer will soon be a thing of the past.
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what the hell would Miss. do with 4000 new babies. christ, they can't take of the state's citizens now!

wow! I didn't know it cost that much.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If memory serves, Mississippi was one of the last states to revoke its

slavery statute, still on the books into the 60s or 70s.

[MadMaddie]

2. The repugs are such hypocrits....

You see this is part of the problem of race and poverty...

The repugs want it both ways...

They want to prevent women from having the choice to decide what they think is best for their lives....

Yet the Repugs will turn around and scream that blacks are on welfare and have too many kids..

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virtually all are African American
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[Iris]

7. Yeah. And I've met a lot of "anti-abortion" folks in the south who

are really only anti-abortion when it comes to white women.

[MuseRider]

3. Try paying for a back alley job.

My friend in the early 70's had to find a way to get $700.00 and pay for the raunchy motel room it was done in. We all pitched in what we could.

[bluestateguy]

4. One sentence struck out at me

Most appear to be under 25, virtually all are African American, and all sit in silence and stare at the TV in the corner of the room.

I guess when the rich little sorority girls from Ole Miss get into trouble they just have Daddy send them out of state to have the procedure done, so as to avoid all of the harassment.

[BootinUp]

5. Probably true.

[donsu]

6. and let's remember that a big part of the state got beat up by the

storm

the state was a mess before Katrina and now....