Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Here's what the Supreme Court's abortion pill ruling means" video.

  1. For helping women who wanted abortions ... would you label these members of clergy as being moral ... or immoral? From the book … Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice ... author ... Dr. Willie Parker Ethical Abortion Care An estimated 450,000 women called on the Clergy Consultation Service for help in the six years before Roe--and the coalition, which started with twenty-one members, grew to two thousand. Activism by Moody's group helped propel New York's legislature to legalize abortion in 1970, the first state in the nation to do so. Emboldened by its success, the Clergy Consultation Service then began to help women from other states travel to New York to obtain safe and legal abortions, and then, breaking with medical establishment, these same clerics proposed the model for the first abortion clinic. Believing that women's privacy and autonomy would be better served if they could get their abortion care in a freestanding clinic instead of in a hospital. Moody's group worked with a doctor committed to providing "low cost, quality care, humane treatment and a willingness to serve the poor" in a freestanding place. Women's Services, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, was the first abortion clinic in the country.
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  2. Although this United States Supreme Court judge is now deceased, words from her book live on. From the book … My Own Words … author … RUTH BADER GINSBURG. Whether you are a Christian, or an Atheist … you better think hard and long, as you close one clinic after another … in the pretense that it protects “babies.” The lives of women are at stake here, and they are the lives of your mothers, daughters, aunts, friends … and even grandmothers. Then she made a point, nowhere addressed in the Breyer opinion, but embedded in the memories of women old enough to remember the days when abortion was illegal: “When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners, faute de mieux, at great risk to their health and safety.” (Later speaking with a reporter, she was blunt about the law’s purpose: “It seemed to me it was a sham to pretend this was about a woman’s health” rather than about making it harder to obtain an abortion.)
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