Hooray for abortion

I proclaim 'hooray for abortion' in the same sense I proclaim 'hooray for brain surgery, hooray for prosthetic limbs and hooray for heart transplants'. Whatever improves the health of people is their business. I would no more restrict their efforts to securing better health and life options than I would allow them to restrict mine.

Alas, the impending demise of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court next month, spells the likely end to legal abortion for 34 million women in the 28 states that have either already banned abortion or are on the cusp. Women with means will still be able get their reproductive services in progressive states like Illinois, albeit at unnecessary cost, time and mental anguish. But millions of women with little or no means face a daunting challenge to receive what they should with ease from local medical facilities. They must run a cruel gauntlet of shame, poverty, job loss, even loss of life trying to obtain the most basic right a human being is entitled to.

I'm not trying to convert any anti abortion person to applaud abortion. I simply encourage them to not ever have one if they find themselves pregnant; counsel their loved ones to do the same, and then get out of the way if rebuffed. But doing anything to degrade the Constitution’s right to privacy, inflicting untold pain on the have nots in desperate straits, earns my fervent opposition.

Hooray for abortion...and may it, against now all odds, become a basic human right in all 50 states...and around the world.