This will be the face of abortion,

[catsittingstill]

if the In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd gets their way.

This way to the back-alley hack performing illegal abortions.

Keep abortion safe and legal.

[Later edit--one of my readers had trouble with my link.  Here is CNN's story on the incident.]

Comments

[randwolf]

This seems to be purely the prosecutor's account of the matter. It may not--I hope!--be accurate, or even honest.

In other bad news, the House Republicans are planning to introduce a law to make access to abortion even harder. There seems a chance it will pass the Senate. http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/01/21/the-true-meaning-of-replace-house-readies-bill-to-codify-hyde-amendment/

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I get a 404 error from this link.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I'm still considering the possibility that some of this evidence was trumped up by a hyperconservative prosecutor with an agenda. After all, this is how half the Fox "news" crowd would escribe *any* clinic where abortions are performed, no matter how clean and competently run.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Fascinating - it failed 4 times in a row and then worked. I am so confused.

The article is horrifying, however; it's so depressing to realize that things like this are happening here. Bah. This isn't 1950 - things are supposed to be better! and not just for the wealthy.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

The "women don't own their own bodies" crowd will use this incident to claim that all abortions are horrific like this and so they must be illegal.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

And how sad that women were so desperate that they went to a place like this, fairly equivalent to back alley.

If they were coming in for late term abortions, the women knew it was illegal, too. How very sad.

[gorgeousgary]

And on the same day the Washington Post carried a sobering article on Catholic hospitals getting in trouble the Catholic hierarchy over reproductive care. Including a case where a hospital was booted out of the church after performing an abortion to save the life of a 27-year old mother.