hanneblank (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hanneblank) wrote,@ 2005-08-11 10:49:00 |
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The writing is coming along for this last chapter. I'm thirty-odd pages in, and closing in on being halfway through the chapter, which is just about what I'd hoped for. If I can bring in the second half of the chapter in a similar number of pages it'll be just right.
In other news, it looks like the Irish Family Planning Association is mounting a substantial campaign to attempt to create legal provisions for safe, legal abortions on demand in that country. This coming at a time where there is so much anxiety here about the current vacancy in the Supreme Court, and the possibility that there might be an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade that could succeed if a sufficiently socially conservative candidate is chosen for the job, certainly gives me pause.
I'm now imagining a world where American women are refused abortion unless the life of the mother is in danger -- the current situation on the ground in Ireland -- but Irish women are able to walk into their local reproductive health clinics and obtain abortions without unnecessary restrictions when and as they have recourse.
I wonder, would American women (who could afford it) then fly to Ireland to get abortions, much as approximately six thousand Irishwomen now travel to England every year to obtain the abortion services they cannot get at home?
-- Hanne
In other news, it looks like the Irish Family Planning Association is mounting a substantial campaign to attempt to create legal provisions for safe, legal abortions on demand in that country. This coming at a time where there is so much anxiety here about the current vacancy in the Supreme Court, and the possibility that there might be an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade that could succeed if a sufficiently socially conservative candidate is chosen for the job, certainly gives me pause.
I'm now imagining a world where American women are refused abortion unless the life of the mother is in danger -- the current situation on the ground in Ireland -- but Irish women are able to walk into their local reproductive health clinics and obtain abortions without unnecessary restrictions when and as they have recourse.
I wonder, would American women (who could afford it) then fly to Ireland to get abortions, much as approximately six thousand Irishwomen now travel to England every year to obtain the abortion services they cannot get at home?
-- Hanne
