South Dakota's restrictive abortion law may provide the Supreme Court with the opportunity to consider the issue of abortion. We all know that the goal of the Republican party, as led from its right wing, is to limit women's reproductive freedom. And of course, if Roe is overturned, the United States will return to a patchwork of state regulations regarding abortion. In more liberal states, women will probably retain some right to an abortion. In other states, even those without current restrictive rules, the political will may exist to pass new laws restricting those rights.
In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, when abortion was illegal, a number of Chicago women formed an organization called JANE. At first, JANE was a go-between between women who needed abortions and some supposed doctors who agreed to provide them, When the women of JANE discovered that the main man who they were using to provide these abortions was unlicensed, they learned how to conduct the abortion procedures themselves.
If abortion were made illegal in your state, how far would you go to guarantee a woman's right to choose whether or not to bear a child? Would you learn to perform abortion procedures? Would you be willing to help women in need find providers willing to perform abortions? How far does your commitment to reproductive rights extend?