Abortion’s new underground railroad
According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2009 the median cost of a first-trimester abortion was just under $500. Add the bus travel or gas and up to three nights in a hotel, and the cost can jump by several hundred dollars.
That’s the impetus behind Clinic Action Support Network, which was founded last summer in response to the new law, and aims to help Houston-area women clear the growing hurdles to abortion access.
But regulations and requirements like those in HB2 are not limited to Texas. Twenty-seven states have passed abortion regulations….
The trend has given rise to networks like CASN nationwide that help close the gap between the legal right to an abortion and the ability to get one. The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, for example, puts up women in a supportive hotel that charges the organization $49.99 a night for a room.
~ BillMoyers.com, reporting on “abortion’s underground railroad,” July 17
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Suuuure. Abortion’s underground railroad. But instead of being underground, these networks shout their evil works from the rooftop of Twitter and other social media sites, looking for donations. And instead of helping people escape to freedom, they help women access death and destruction and heartache. We’ve come a long way, baby.
There will always be rich people who believe that the best (i.e., cheapest) way to reduce poverty is to kill the poor people. To be sure, there is a great deal of racism among the elitists in addition to the class-and-income prejudice.
Our job is to be generous with real love and help for the women and children who need it, until lives are protected and abortion is once again unthinkable.
Has anybody ever heard of this Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights ever helping women who want to carry their babies to term? It seem that all they do is talk about how terrible prolifers are and promote abortion on demand.
Lrning I agree that the term “Underground Railroad” to describe this groups efforts is an insult. Individuals who helped the escaped slaves risked beatings, imprisonment, were sometimes branded and even killed. As for the slaves themselves they were not only beaten and taken back into slavery but were often “sold down the river” — that is, sold into the deep south like Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. where escape was very difficult (the majority of escaped slaves were from the border states and places like Virginia — some did escape from the deep South, though). I also wonder if these people will be around if these women suffer any negative physical or emotional effects from their abortions? I think not.
God bless the Underground Railroad, new and old.
The slaves were trying to get away from other people telling them what to do.
No different now – women needing abortions trying to get away from other people trying to tell them what to do.
Freedom!!
Indeed Ive heard people say they would rather see women abort than pay for a woman to be on welfare. However most of my experiences have been watching women who were not on welfare having abortions while the poor kept their babies. The majority of the women I knew over the years had houses cars educations but they just didnt want to be bothered. They werent in crisis. They were selfish.
Also if having an abortion was a matter of being poor then why do the elite abort? Lets take Cher for example. Shes got enough $ to raise 20 families. Madonna too. So why has each woman had multiple abortions? About 6 for Cher and at least 11 for Madonna.
Will these people go so far as to kidnap a minor and take her across state lines without her parents’ knowledge or consent? Are they willing to pick up the pieces should something go wrong with the abortion? Do they screen these clients? What if the woman is a victim of sex trafficking or coercion? What happens if they aid and abet the perpetrator? Will they lift a finger to help anyone who chooses life for her child?
Ahem, if I may remind the pro-choice lurkers & commentators that according to AGI, the majority of abortions, around 98%, are preformed for socio-elective reasons & are therefore “wanted” but not necessarily “needed.” In fact, there is not a “need” for abortion except in the rare case of life-threatening pregnancy complications wherein expectant management or early delivery is not possible or feasable. Interestingly enough, it is the social elite & wealthy who often claim poor & working women “need” abortion while infact seeking to secure abortion access for themselves.
Mortimer, the God that I serve does not sanction the killing of the innocent.
Ladybug: Ahem, if I may remind the pro-choice lurkers & commentators that according to AGI, the majority of abortions, around 98%, are preformed for socio-elective reasons & are therefore “wanted” but not necessarily “needed.”
There isn’t any external “need,” anyway, i.e. it’s all desire, from the get-go.
You’re definitely right that it’s very rare (at least in the US, for example) to have a pregnancy that is life-threatening for the pregnant woman.
Ok So leftest are working to kill babies…by secretly moving women around,
My God the left is sick
Oh Cindy, 160 years ago you’d have been boo-hooing about secretly moving escaped slaves around.
Remember, all those who oppose abortion:
Every vote counts today, and…
Abortion stops… a bleeding heart!
Hey mods I have to ask. Are the pro-abort trolls working the like buttons legitimately to get 38 likes on their posts? What’s up with that? If they are not legit is there a way to note this? If they are legit I’ll continue to ignore their posts. Just asking.
As I noted on a thread last week, I know we are in a war and I want to alert all prolifers especially those like Jill and other high profile prolifers. The Hobby Lobby case has brought out of the closet the loonies, demented haters and the radical pro-aborts. Be careful out there prolifers.
“Are the pro-abort trolls working the like buttons legitimately to get 38 likes on their posts? What’s up with that?”
easy, just get on Facebook get yo prolife frens over here
Thanks Edgar. I appreciate the heads up. OK I understand now how that works.
I am a proabort chief, and if you want 120,000+ Likes, come here:
https://www.facebook.com/naralprochoiceamerica
Looks like it’s getting good.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/07/stop_patriarchy_is_crashing_texas_with_its_abortion_freedom_ride_and_local_feminists_are_pissed.php
Infighting is funny whenever it isn’t happening to us.
Where is all the Facebook stuff?