Randy Reneau, Corryton
Will outlawing abortion end abortion in this nation? If you look at Italy, it did not. Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini ended abortion in 1930, instituting severe laws for having one. Italy treated birth control propaganda in the same way as abortion and the spreading of venereal disease, making it a crime punishable with up to one year in jail. It is estimated that there are more than 1 million illegal abortions in Italy every year — the same number as live births — and this is put down to lack of information on birth control. It is believed that about 30,000 women die each year as a result of such operations. This would make the death toll since the 1930 laws more than 1 million.
In Nazi Germany, you could lose your life for having a abortion. Because of the death toll in Italy, abortion became legal in May 1978, when Italian women were allowed to terminate a pregnancy on request during the first 90 days. Now all state hospitals and clinics in Italy will in the future provide free information on birth control to any woman who requests it. Are we heading down the same road as Italy and Germany? Those who are anti-abortion rights do not care about women’s right of choice or their lives. It only shows the decaying of our society, as it did in both Germany and Italy after World War I.
How many Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed laws restricting the right to choice and are trying to take away birth control for women? With corporate America having Congress and the president in their back pocket, how long will our amnesia democracy last? Things like birth control are like the canary in the coal mine. With power-hungry elitism controlling big business and controlling our government, how long will it be before we becomes serfs?
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