Well, it's certainly been an interesting week as attention in the United States shifted from slaughter in Ukraine to abortion in the aftermath of Justice Samuel Alito's leaked proposal regarding the Supreme Court and 1973's Roe vs. Wade.
Among the take-aways in Alito's opinion, a very Republican market-based reason for increasing the number of unwanted pregnancies carried to term: “Nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002,” according to an addendum found on page 34 of the 98-page the draft opinion, “whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to adopt had become virtually nonexistent.”
Various factors are responsible for the decline in abortion rate to pre-1973 levels, of course, but access to accurate family planning information and contraception via Planned Parenthood and other agencies certainly is among them.
I was interested in this article, "7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked," from National Public Radio on Friday. Among the facts that emerge: Roughly 6 in 10 Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most cases.
For many in the United States, outlook on abortion --- and in some cases contraception in general --- is all tangled up in Christian sectarianism. And historically, Christianity always has been enthusiastically pro-death --- for everyone outside various circles of believers.
Will this current love affair with fertilized eggs be expanded to include real, live human beings if Roe vs. Wade falls? Not very likely.
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