The Alabama law is so heinous because it also criminalizes at home abortions by women taking a drug for a chemical abortion.
Anyway, I think most women should stock up for such medication in case they or a friend need it. The hassle and delay of buying it in a drugstore, or waiting for on-line delivery might be enough to miss an important pregnancy deadline. Such medication can be bought for around 100 dollars, free for people who can’t afford it. Buying the medication can be done safely through sites like these. Women on the Web - Wikipedia
The same goes for morning after pills. If I were a woman in a Red State, I’d have a supply of those in my medicine cabinet. Even in Alabama those would be legal, as the woman takes them the morning after, not six weeks after.
People who are determined to “Make America A White Christian Nation Again” are not going to be in favor of letting white men opt out of their duty to make more white babies.
Yeah, there’s a non-trivial overlap between the people saying “we are aborting our future” and the people saying that we have no room for more immigrants or refugees. The white supremacy angle here is very real.
Vasectomies are irreversible, and many horny young men want children later. That’s not a great solution. IUDs on the other hand, are reversible, and last for years of they aren’t removed. They have a bad reputation in the US, because the ones used 50 years ago were dangerous. But the ones currently on the market have a good safety record.
Rehabilitating and subsidizing IUDs would go a long way to reducing the demand for abortions. They don’t do anything to slow the spread of STIs, of course, but neither do vasectomies.
Why don’t you address any response you see as inflammatory yourself? How about, “well, if Roe were simply overturned, then the decision to ban abortion would return to the States. However, if somehow it were banned nationwide, I don’t think blue states would simply ignore the law. There’s not much precedent for that.”
Or, do it your way and make sure every thread goes right to the gutter. Whatever floats your boat.
Ah. They do prevent the implantation of the egg. But I think there’s a lot more political support for “don’t actively kill a thing with a heart beat” than for “don’t allow a fertilized egg to pass through the system without implanting”. Some huge fraction of fertilized eggs don’t make it in the best of circumstances. That’s why it typically takes more than one try to get a “test tube baby”, and why they often implant more than one fertilized egg at a time.
But, from the perspective of at least some pro life people I’ve talked with, it’s like the difference between murdering your house guest and refusing to open the door to a stranger. I think a lot of young women and their loved ones would be comfortable with IUDs if they got better press, and if they were cheaper and easier to get.
You’d mostly see opposition from the “people shouldn’t have sex unless they are married and open to babies” camp, not the pro-life camp.
Yeah, I think there’s a lot of overlap between them. It’s like gay marriage: Would those who oppose gay marriage really settle for civil unions given that the bulk of those who oppose gay marriage also opposed civil unions and, before that, the legalization of homosexual sex? It’s a mistake to just take them at their word and think that if you solve the problem they’re ostensibly complaining about, they’ll be appeased.
This picture from an Economist article made me wonder: Alabama’s lawmakers want to challenge Roe v Wade It makes it look like the bulk of anti-abortion activists are white middle-aged women past the age of having an abortion.
I’ve seen stats of abortion opinion tolls split according to gender or age but not gender and age combined. Is there any data like that?
It reminds me of a report I saw of a middle-aged guy with no education who spent the time he could otherwise have spent looking for work doing armed vigilante patrols of the US-Mexico borders, like he needed a cause to fill the gap where the rest of his life should be.
Very good point, Left Hand of Dorkness. If I lived in Alabama and had a son, I would encourage him to stock up on both. Even if there’s a small chance having those might encourage intercourse without proper anticonception.
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