Letters to the Editor
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After Roe
I'd like to see an article on what we can expect of post-Roe America. Because, let's face it, Roe is almost certainly history. In the near future, abortion will become effectively unavailable for women in "red" states, at least those who are too poor to travel to an area with more liberal laws.
(I recognize that many American women are already facing that situation due to the restrictions placed on abortion by state legislatures in conservative states, of course.)
So what does the future hold? A rise in back-alley abortions, dead girls with lacerated uteri, unwed young mothers, babies with serious birth defects, etc.? If so, will the media cover the issue, or cover it up?
Will the pro-choice movement reformulate itself as a movement to restore the right to abortion? What might such a movement look like? Was there a similar movement in pre-Roe America?
In fact, it would be very helpful to those of us who don't remember or didn't experience pre-Roe America to have a picture of what it was like. And that would probably be a pretty fascinating article. How about it, Salon?