If women care about their right to choose when to have children, they will rise up against the antiabortion tide sweeping state legislatures like Alabama's, writes columnist AbcarianLAT.
Abortion rights activists protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court during the March for Life in Washington in January.
I was slack-jawed in 2012, when Republican presidential candidates seriously debated whether women should have access to birth control. Perhaps you have forgotten that Republican candidate Rick Santorum spoke of theOr maybe you have put it out of your mind that in 2014,that employers’ religious beliefs should be able to determine what kind of health coverage their women employees are entitled to. I haven’t.
I believe that pithy maxim is the most straightforward explanation for why we are still at war over our right to choose when and whether to have children.And how can anyone who has been paying attention — to the sex scandals in the church, to the grotesque revelations of the #MeToo movement — not understand that men often believe they are entitled to dominion over the bodies of women and children?Signed into law Wednesday night by Republican Gov.
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