The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89412   Message #1687390
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Mar-06 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: abortion south dakota
Subject: RE: BS: abortion south dakota
A forced choice is not a free choice. A right to choose implies the absence of economic and social pressures that constrain that choice.

My impression is that not too much has been achieved in that direction in the USA in the years since the Wade decision. At any rate arguments about the issue on the Mudcat always seem to take for granted the overwheening presence of those kinds of pressures.

While that is the case, whether it's legal or not, you are going to continue to have an awful lot of unwanted abortions.