I keep hearing about states like Mississippi and Arizona closing abortion clinics and restricting abortion, and I’ve been wondering why we haven’t heard much about back-alley abortions. And now I know why. Women who can’t get an abortion in the U.S. are going to Mexico, where a miscarriage-inducing drug is available over the counter.
The catch is that abortion is illegal in most of Mexico also, so even though the drug — mifepristone — is available over the counter, and everyone knows taking it can terminate a pregnancy, women who purchase it have to pretend its for their ulcers. And the pharmacy workers, who know good and well why all these women are buying mifepristone, cannot give them directions about the correct dosage. So the women either don’t take enough, and stay pregnant; or they take too much and have to be hospitalized for bleeding.
Ah, the perfect Conservative solution, probably garnered from the frontier days:
“If you can’t kill them. Wound them!”
“Why yes, the coat-hanger for your husband’s suit can be used for other things. We just can’t tell you for what, how or where. Enjoy your day.”
One might think that on a planet that is already warming, and growing beyond its capacity to provide food and water for billions of people, that we’d have a SENSIBLE world-wide program of child prevention, and the garnering, and wise use, of natural resources.
But, then, you’d be neither an American, nor a Conservative!
“Too Socialist, my dears…”
The Earth is ours to abuse, and to rape, even.
Much like women and brown people.
We Liberals can complain about a lot of things regarding Conservatives – consistance, ain’t one of ’em!
Wonder what would happen if they went to Canada?
Time to start an underground abortion clinic in some states. Out of state doctors traveling incognito into hostile territory to give women what is legally theirs. Then slipping back across the border in the dead of night. All the while, avoiding Bubba and Leroy, who have been deputized by the sheriff. They have orders to shoot first and we’ll bury the evidence. Never mind the fact that the pregnancies being terminated probably belong to Bubba, Leroy, or the sheriff. What century am I in, btw??
Unfortunately, when underground clinics spring up, they are usually not staffed by doctors.
Bonnie, I suspect if they came to Canada and found a private clinic and paid, they would be able to have an abortion, but honestly, I’m not sure.
One thing I do know is that it is much easier to find an abortion provider in some provinces than in others. Montreal (in Quebec) or Toronto (in Ontario) are probably the easiest places in Canada to find an abortion provider.
But really, it’s been a long time since I needed that service (which I did get in both a timely and compassionate manner).
Some further information on abortion in Canada:
A cursory internet search has yielded confirmation of my comments above: If you are a non-resident of the province where the clinic is situated, you must pay for the service. One clinic in Alberta that I found on the net charges $450-$650, depending on the type of abortion (surgical or non-surgical) and the length of the pregnancy (more expensive when the number of weeks is higher).
Aside from paying the fee, there don’t appear to be any other impediments to getting an abortion at a clinic in Canada.
I just love it, abortion for the rich only. Seems I am now more glad I’m a retired EMT. I won’t have to haul the dying daughters to the hospital because the butchers are back.
Completely off topic but certainly another under-the-radar practice is the drive to disenfranchise minorities. Turns out that Obama is practically guaranteed 80% of the minority vote. If he can pull in as little of 40% of the remaining voters, he wins the election. Makes the Republican jihad to purge the voter rolls of minorities very understandable AND something that should be given far more notice in the media than presently is the case.