Mary Sanchez: Abortion wars of 2024 – Could women be criminally charged for miscarrying?
Decades ago, the abortion debate often involved photos of bloodied fetuses paraded around on placards and plastered across the sides of over-the-road trucks by groups like Operation Rescue. Then came the U.S. Supreme Court’ s Dobbs v. Here’ s an overlooked stat: As of 2020, the majority of abortions in the U.S.– well over 50 percent– were carried out with a pill, by...
Decades ago, the abortion debate often involved photos of bloodied fetuses paraded around on placards and plastered across the sides of over-the-road trucks by groups like Operation Rescue.
The intention was to horrify. Revulsion was the goal.
Developing fetuses, umbilical cord attached, covered in blood, were thought to be jarring images, enough to force pro-choice advocates to reconsider.
Back then, too many people naively assumed that access to abortion, under limited conditions, would be legally protected by the Roe v. Wade decision of
