Over the next few weeks, I will serialize my book Coat Hanger and Knitting Needles. I self-published and repeatedly sent the book to Pro-life group heads, pro-life legislators and judges. The year I spent writing the book was emotional as I read about lives that had been destroyed. I also discovered incredibly brave men and women who helped women in trouble.
"Almost half of American women have terminated at least one pregnancy and millions more Americans of both sexes have helped them as partners, parents, health-care workers, counselors, friends." Katha Pollitt, The Atlantic May 1997.
Across every culture throughout time, there have been women who have missed a period, but knew they couldn't have a child at that time. They sought abortions.
Making abortions illegal is useless in stopping them. Abortion will continue no matter how many laws are passed. Women, who do not want a baby for any number of reasons, will find a way to end the pregnancy. Legal or illegal, it doesn't matter.
The more I researched American abortion prior to 1973, I realized the topic is endless. I've searched scholarly studies, newspapers TV programs, court documents and first-person accounts.
For every woman who had an abortion there is back story.
The idea that over turning Roe v. Wade would stop abortions was the same as saying this Monday, a second sun, will appear in the sky or making prohibition illegal means that no one will drink again.
Our energies are better spent on making it easier to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
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