{"id":1261,"date":"2004-12-14T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/14\/a-post-roe-usa\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T18:40:47","slug":"a-post-roe-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"A post-Roe USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/bradhicks\/121866.html\">The Infamous Brad<\/a> has taken The Center for Reproductive Rights&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/aborvw.htm\">educated guesses about which states will ban abortion <\/a>if Roe v Wade is overturned and put them in a map form. (I&#8217;ve cleaned the map up a bit and added in Hawaii, Alaska and captions).<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"after-roe-map.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/after-roe-map.gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"325\" border=\"3\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some things to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not at all certain that Bush could overturn <i>Roe<\/i>, even if he wanted to. Roe currently enjoys a 6-3 majority. To reverse that, Bush would have to replace two of the currently pro-<i>Roe <\/i>justices, and it&#8217;s not certain he&#8217;ll get a chance to do that.\n<li>Even if Bush could nominate enough justices to overturn <i>Roe<\/i>, it&#8217;s possible he wouldn&#8217;t. Many pundits think that if <i>Roe <\/i>is overturned, that would hurt the Republicans in the election booth. However, I&#8217;m not so confident &#8211; it seems to me that Bush has never lacked for audacity.\n<li>The worst-case scenario is that either Congress or the Supreme Court will ban abortion nationwide. This isn&#8217;t likely, though, because it would almost certainly be an electoral disaster for Republicans if it happened.\n<li>If this happens, pro-choice organizations will be formed to raise funds to help impoverished women who need abortions pay for transportation to the legal states. Abortion ban states will pass laws making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines for the purposes of getting an abortion. And probably some sort of &#8220;underground railroad&#8221; pro-choice activism will exist to help teenagers in abortion-ban states get abortions.\n<li>As Infamous Brad points out, &#8220;What&#8217;s more, the anti-abortion movement&#8217;s campaign of terror back in the 1980s and early 1990s had a chilling effect. This is almost the status quo now. In many, many of those &#8220;red&#8221; anti-abortion states, doctors are no longer willing to perform abortions in nearly any rural clinic or hospital. Already, 86% of all counties, including 95% of all rural counties, have no local access to abortion. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agi-usa.org\/pubs\/fb_induced_abortion.html\">Alan Gutmacher Institute<\/a>.) Women who want abortions in a lot of places are already having to drive or be driven hundreds of miles for them, and to plan for an overnight stay in the process because of mandatory waiting periods. So if you look at it that way, a repeal of Roe wouldn&#8217;t be that different fom the America we live in now.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>So Roe&#8217;s repeal wouldn&#8217;t be the end of the world. But it would be bad, and it would hurt a lot of women, mostly poor women and underage women in the red states.<\/p>\n<p>Do read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/bradhicks\/121866.html\">The Infamous Brad&#8217;s entire post<\/a> for more analysis, and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/aborvw.htm\">this page on Religious Tolorance.org<\/a>. And thanks to &#8220;Alas&#8221; reader Douglas for the tip.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: In response to &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers pointing out errors, I&#8217;ve changed CT and CA to be marked as &#8220;safe.&#8221; Thanks, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Infamous Brad has taken The Center for Reproductive Rights&#8217; educated guesses about which states will ban abortion if Roe v Wade is overturned and put them in a map form. (I&#8217;ve cleaned the map up a bit and added &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}