Posted on 05/08/2022 10:49:28 PM PDT by Morgana
Sunday Morning A frontline in the fight over abortion sunday-morning
May 8, 2022 / 9:12 AM / CBS News
Never mind that Justice Samuel Alito's leaked opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade was a draft, not a final decision; its impact was like a hurled grenade. Once detonated, it ignited all the pent-up passions surrounding the expected end of Roe, after nearly 50 years. The news was a shock, but not a surprise.
"In 2019 we got a preview and a dry run of what living in a post-Roe reality was gonna look like," said Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood for the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.
In May 2019, only last-minute court intervention kept the Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis open. It was the last abortion clinic in the state. "And it was at that moment that we started to be really strategic for planning for a future without abortion in the state of Missouri," Rodriguez told correspondent Martha Teichner.
Planned Parenthood built an 18,000-square-foot facility, in secret, in Fairview Heights, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, in Illinois – where abortion laws are as liberal as they are restrictive in Missouri. Last year it performed approximately 6,000 abortions. It is prepared to perform 14,000 a year going forward.
Rodriguez said, "We are doing this not just for Missouri patients, but for patients across the Midwest and South."
If you want to see what a post-Roe world will look like, look at a map of the states, like Illinois, where abortion will be legal … and all those others where it likely will not: A new kind of continental divide.
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Leave it to the Democrats to legalize killing babies as a way to funnel campaign cash through Planned Parenthood making death pay. The fact is that 99% of abortions are the result of promiscuous behavior. Disgusting.
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