The two-time Academy Award winning actor talks about how she became pregnant around 1964 when she was just 17. She was desperate and didn’t know what to do but a family friend who was a doctor drove her across the border to Tijuana to get an abortion which was illegal then. It was a traumatic experience and, as she says, we are now seeing a resurgence of the same conditions that are forcing women to undergo similar harrowing experiences.
It is a powerful testimony and I hope many people see it and realize how dangerous is the threat to women’s reproductive rights posed by creepy Donald Trump, weird JD Vance, the misogynistic GOP, and a US Supreme Court that wants to take us back to those dark ages.
When abortion is illegal many women and young girls die. That is a fact. The right wing does not care.
Yeah, but this also shows that prohibition can at least sometimes be circumvented.
(needs must and all that)
@ John Morales, #2: “Sometimes” being the operative word here. Prohibition can sometimes be circumvented, if you’re rich, white, not disabled, pretty and above all, lucky.
We’ve tried prohibition before. Prohibition of alcohol caused organized crime to become embedded in US society. Prohibition of “illegal” drugs has basically created the institution of drug lords.