Happy birthday to legal abortion!
If abortion was a human it would be
considered *over the hill* by traditional celebratory standards. But abortion
is not a human and the road to justice is ongoing, if not endless.
In fact, when the Abortioneers
started this blog a few years ago, we were wee warriors with fresh hearts and
brilliant dreams. Triumphs and defeats ebb and flow and every Abortioneer is
still toiling for justice. Albeit, recognizing and executing the work/life balance
that must transpire if one if to fight this fight until every last uterus is
liberated. In other words, even when we are silent and the posts are lagging,
the Abortioneers are Abortioneering.
Plus, we’re curious about you. What
are you doing today, 40 years past the monumental Supreme Court decision, to
celebrate legal abortion and/or to fight the good fight? Please share…
We’d also like to share this
contribution to the ever-growing source of knowledge that is the
internet:
For Roe’s 40th, Physicians for
Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH), has released the video Voices of
Choice online, in full, for the first time: http://www.prch.org/physicians-voices-voices-choice.
The 25-minute documentary, produced
in 2003, provides firsthand accounts of the suffering before abortion was
legalized, from doctors and advocates who helped as many women as they could
obtain safe care before Roe v. Wade. Among those featured: Byllye Avery,
Dr. Curtis Boyd, Dr. Eugene Glick (1929-2010), Dr. Mildred Hanson, and Reverend
Howard Moody (1921-2012).
Voices of Choice
also offers a look at where we were ten years ago, in 2003, through the eyes of
Dr. George Tiller (1941-2009) and others.
Go
forward and be merry (in spite of everything)…
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