Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Chipping Away...

or as my friend Lise calls it, "Creeping Fascism". Anti-Choice forces are rallying to make it as near as impossible as they can to eliminate anywhere a woman can get a safe abortion. Here's one story about a Virginia attempt to undermine women's health service centers via health and building regulations after 2 of only 3 clinics in Kansas were successfully closed this way :
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/abortion-usa

2 comments:

Susan Flett Swiderski said...

Abortion isn't something I would have ever chosen for myself, but I'm old enough to remember what it was like when women were getting maimed and dying in illegal back alley clinics. Those sanctimonious politicians need to remember that, too.

Austan said...

Susan- Yes, these sanctimonious politicians don't want to hear about that. They're almost always men, too. Funny, that.