Queen the 'most powerful' chess piece, but women could become more like knight, hoping around the states looking for safe space when it comes to abortions |
WHICH
ALSO MAKES these people the ones whose blood pressure shot sky-high Wednesday,
when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Reproductive Health Act into law.
That’s
the measure approved this spring by the General Assembly (the one that got
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and state Senate President John
Cullerton excommunicated from the Catholic Church by the bishop for
Springfield).
It
is the one that says any attempt to take down a woman’s right to end a
pregnancy by her own choice at the national level won’t change things in
Illinois. Because our state will remain one where the issue is perceived as a
gynecological one – rather than something involving morals.
Of
course, that enhances the concept that our nation is destined to become a chessboard,
of sorts.
OUR
NATIONAL MAPS will start to have versions where abortion is regarded as a
health issue – as opposed to one where the police are called for whenever a
pregnancy ends unsuccessfully.
Abortion restrictions continue to evolve into national chessboard effect |
Take
our own Midwest. We could wind up one of the most split regions of our nation
when it comes to abortion policy.
For
Illinois is establishing itself as a state where a woman can go, if she
needs/desires the procedure. While our bordering states are becoming places
eager to establish themselves as one where we call the cops on any woman who
doesn’t view the creation of a new life as her most significant function on
this planet.
OVER
IN INDIANA, the state has a law requiring a fetus to receive a proper funeral
(either through burial or cremation), which would create more of a hassle for
women viewing an abortion as a way of getting out of an inconvenient pregnancy.
The Supreme Court recently upheld that.
Whereas
over in Missouri, one of the controversies of late is the fact that officials
are refusing to renew the permits allowing Planned Parenthood to operate a
clinic in St. Louis that includes abortion amongst the services it performs.
That
clinic happens to be the only one anywhere in Missouri where a woman can get an
abortion. Meaning the clinic in nearby Granite City, Ill., is now likely to
become jammed up with women crossing the state lines so they can no longer be
pregnant.
Whose choice should it be … |
The
Mississippi River could become a boundary women will have to cross. So too
could State Line Road – the street that literally separates Chicago from
Hammond, Ind. AND Illinois from Indiana. Since our Hoosier neighbors have made
it clear they also view abortion as something that ought to be a police matter.
WITH
THAT STATE’S attitudes receiving national prominence because many of its
efforts to restrict abortion access came about back when Vice President Mike
Pence was Indiana governor – and he makes it clear he’s not only not repentant,
he’s one of those who’s hoping all the Southern states (Alabama, Mississippi,
etc.) pushing their own anti-abortion measures ultimately result in giving the
Supreme Court an excuse to take down “Roe vs. Wade.”
… with regards to that potential for a baby inside? |
It’s
going to be the chessboard effect – with some 30 of the 50 states enacting laws
intended to make abortion, if not a criminal act, one that is
next-to-impossible to obtain. Women in places like Illinois, New York or
California (or other states dominated by a sizable urban area) will have it,
while those in more rural places will be like the knight in a game of chess –
leaping over state lines to wind up somewhere where political people are more
tolerant.
Even
though there is evidence that many women everywhere are supportive of the
notion that abortion is a medical issue – a recent poll for NPR and PBS found
63 percent think a woman who is raped or suffers from incest (which are
criminal acts) ought to be able to end a pregnancy, while 86 percent think
saving a woman’s life or health is sufficient reason.
While
only 24 percent think that a doctor performing such an act is a criminal – with
71 percent opposed. Just one more bit of evidence on how out-of-touch the
ideologues are when they spew their rhetoric about the, “cruel dehumanization
of unborn Illinoisans on a mass scale.”
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