Sen Ron Johnson: “It might be a little messy for some people, but abortion is not going away,”...tells women to go out of state if they want abortion

[basquebromance]

i worry this single hit piece will sink his campaign, might summarize it later and post excerpts, though i don't wanna do harm to my Ronnie's campaign

Senator Ron Johnson Tells Pregnant People to Suck It Up and Go Out of State for an Abortion If They Want One

“It might be a little messy for some people, but abortion is not going away,” he blithely commented.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[night_son]

i worry this single hit piece will sink his campaign, might summarize it later and post excerpts, though i don't wanna do harm to my Ronnie's campaign

Senator Ron Johnson Tells Pregnant People to Suck It Up and Go Out of State for an Abortion If They Want One

“It might be a little messy for some people, but abortion is not going away,” he blithely commented.

www.vanityfair.com

The dark gods must get their child sacrifice quota, right? Will they call abortion vacations the Baal or Moloch tour?

 

[g5000]

He's right. There were just as many abortions in the US before Roe as after.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Well... he's right. It won't be a nation-wide ban, some states will ban it, others won't.

 

[Esdraelon]

The dark gods must get their child sacrifice quota, right? Will they call abortion vacations the Baal or Moloch tour?

Whatever they decide, it will be the U.S. taxpayer at large that will foot the bill.

 

[Esdraelon]

He's right. There were just as many abortions in the US before Roe as after.

Reference? I find it very difficult to believe that once those PP clinics popped up in nearly every community in the nation, more women didn't succumb to the convenience.

 

[g5000]

Reference? I find it very difficult to believe that once those PP clinics popped up in nearly every community in the nation, more women didn't succumb to the convenience.

I did a lot of research on the issue about 15 years ago, and I started with the assumption there was only a fraction of abortions before Roe.

Boy was I surprised to find the number was the same as after Roe. I don't have the data I used, but here is one reference:

Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue?

With an administration deeply opposed to abortion, a Congress poised to pass legislation aimed at weakening the principles underlying Roe v. Wade and a Supreme Court whose composition is considered likely to change in the near future, it is instructive to look back at the choices available—and...

www.guttmacher.org

Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina, concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced abortions occurred in 1967.


Abortions climbed for a little while after Roe, but ever since 1980 the rate of abortions has been declining.

Abortion in the United States

The Guttmacher Institute recently published new data on abortion in the United States. As we work to update our fact sheets with the latest data, please be aware that some of the information below is out of date. In the meantime, please refer to the following resources for the most current facts...

www.guttmacher.org

 

[marvin martian]

He's right. There were just as many abortions in the US before Roe as after.

So what are you baby-killers screeching about then?

 

[g5000]

Even though abortion was banned in a lot of states prior to Roe, they did make exceptions for rape, incest, and the well-being of the mother.

It was this exception for the mother which opened a loophole wide enough to drive a truckful of dead babies through, as Reagan discovered when he was governor of California.

On June 14, 1967, Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, after only six months as California governor. From a total of 518 legal abortions in California in 1967, the number of abortions would soar to an annual average of 100,000 in the remaining years of Reagan’s two terms — more abortions than in any U.S. state prior to the advent of Roe v. Wade. Reagan’s signing of the abortion bill was an ironic beginning for a man often seen as the modern father of the pro-life movement. How did this happen?

[snip]

The Therapeutic Abortion Act became law. And as would happen with nearly every abortion law in the years ahead, the mental-health provision was abused by patient and doctor alike. Reagan biographer Lou Cannon notes that even the bill’s Democratic sponsor confessed to being surprised that physicians so liberally interpreted the law.

Reagan was shocked at the unintended consequences of his action.

Reagan’s Darkest Hour | National Review

As president, Ronald Reagan was an unflagging champion of unborn human life. “Today there is a wound in our national conscience,” Reagan told a joint session of Congress in his 1986 State of the Un…

www.nationalreview.com