Word: roe
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...older physicians retire, the medical profession is also losing its institutional memory of the days before Roe. A generation raised in the era of safe and legal abortion is less likely to produce doctors ready to go to the barricades at the first sign of women being forced to undergo illegal -- and dangerous -- abortions. "I have personally taken care of women with red rubber catheters hanging out of their uterus and a temperature of 107 degrees," says Dr. David Grimes, 45, of the University of Southern California School of Medicine. "Once a physician has watched that happening...
...what if the laws do "go back"? If Roe is eventually overturned, the first result is likely to be a wide-scale confused impression that the loss of the constitutional right means abortion will instantly become illegal in every state. "Women will see the big headlines, and some are going to lose the message," says Dr. Michael Burnhill, professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. "They are going to be confused as to whether they can get an abortion...
...matter what penalties are imposed, past experience suggests that when women are sufficiently desperate, they will terminate their pregnancies by any means available. That is what worries abortion-rights advocates, as they recall the years just before Roe, when there may have been as many as 1.2 million illegal abortions annually in the U.S. States that keep abortion available in the future are likely to become magnets for women from nonabortion states. In the 2 1/2 years preceding Roe, nearly 350,000 women traveled for that reason to New York, which was at the time one of the few / states...
...legal, menstrual extraction is unlikely to become a real alternative to physician-provided abortions. But the very fact that it's under discussion once more is a sign of the ways in which America is bracing itself for a partial return to the past. In the two decades since Roe was handed down, a generation has grown up that knows nothing of the days of illicit abortions conducted on kitchen tables, or in doctor's offices at night with the blinds drawn...
...have waved pictures of the developing fetus, there were no more new images of women victimized by illegal abortions. In the years to come, those pictures, and the desolate realities they represent, are sure to reappear. It was harsh experience that led to the climate of opinion that welcomed Roe. Will it take harsh experience again to sort out the national will on abortion once...