The inescapable fallacy that hangs like an albatross around the neck of the antiabortion movement is the misguided assumption that women will stop terminating their pregnancies if the procedure becomes illegal. America has been there, done that.
Abortion was illegal in this country before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, yet millions of abortions were being performed. One quantitative analysis estimated up to 1.2 million illegal abortions were performed annually before Roe.
So, what should we expect now that Roe has been overturned by a Republican-packed Supreme Court so drunk with power that it treated the 50-year-old precedent like a piece of stale bread to be tossed out like garbage? Legal or not, abortions will continue. But just as it was 50 years ago, many will be unsafe and harm women.
