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On the Moralistic Policies of George W. Bush: Back-Alley Abortions Aren't Progress, Plain and Simple

January 05, 2009 02:09 PM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

Remember back-alley abortions, with wire hangers? That was back in the '60s and '70s, when young women (prior to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision) would go to dangerous lengths to terminate unwanted pregnancies. I knew people who flew overseas (to Cuba) or who used dangerous homemade methods, such as implanting foreign objects in the womb, to abort. Now, the New York Times reports that young Latinas have come up with equally dangerous methods. Unfortunately, the millennial version of back-alley abortions is the use of legal prescription drugs in illegal and dangerous ways.

What hath the right wing wrought? Abstinence-only education that—plain and simple—does not work. And now, abuse of a prescription drug that can cause abortion, but only if used properly:

But it does not always do so, not least because notions of how best to use it vary from inserting several pills into the vagina to letting them dissolve under the tongue. The side effects can be serious, and include rupture of the uterus, severe bleeding and shock.

Is this progress? Not at all! The Obama administration will spend years undoing the damage perpetrated by moralistic government policies set in place by Obama's predecessor.

Tags: abortion | sex education | Barack Obama | George W. Bush

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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