.GloriaAllred reflects on RoeVWade being overturned, details her experience getting a 'back-alley abortion' in the 1960s, calls on Hollywood to cease production in states that ban abortions and offers up an action plan for fighting back.
It is perfectly natural for me to write this. After all, I am one of many who is affected by the decision of four men and one woman in black robes.I first came into existence in the body of an American female. I didn’t ask to be born female. It was a combination of DNA, genes, fate and who knows what else. In any case, I was happy in the body that I called home.
To my astonishment, I was told that I could not get a legal abortion because, at that time in California and in many other states, it was a crime for a doctor to give one. At the time, I could not understand why it was a crime for a doctor or a nurse to help wombs, which had become pregnant. I did not know who and why anyone had decided that wombs would not be permitted to have a safe and legal medical procedure to terminate a pregnancy.
Of course, wombs in the bodies of wealthy women will not be affected because these wombs will have the financial support to travel to other states or other countries where abortion will be safe and legal. Unfortunately, however, many millions of wombs in about half the states will not have that luxury.
We need to understand that women and their wombs have never been given any rights. We have always had to fight to win them and preserve them.
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