The Alabama legislature just reported out a bill imposing further restrictions on abortions. Katha Pollitt wrote recently in The Nation magazine about why gay marriage is becoming more acceptable, but abortion is more and more restricted.
One important reason is that gay marriage involves men, although more gay women have been marrying than men. Men have clout; women don't. And while approximately one in three American women have had abortions, many of them buy into the idea that this is something you don't talk about publicly.
Pollitt notes that corporations don't threaten to pull out of states that pass anti-abortion laws, unlike the threats issued against Indiana when it passed an anti-gay law. Meanwhile, more and more states restrict abortions. And corporations are now allowed to refuse their workers insurance that covers birth control.
Tonight we are in Beaumont, Texas, after driving through Mississippi and Louisiana. We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do.
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