[Analysis] Abortion Still Legal in Mississippi--No Kidding
Charlie Mitchell of The Vicksburg Post explains to Mississippians that abortion is still legal in Mississippi even after the Legislature spent so much time supposedly outlawing it. Surely to goodness people knew this was just a political stunt, right? It’s not like we have other important issues they need to be dealing with, like the state of foster care or mistreatment of kids in training schools they should be spending their taxpayer-funded time on.
Sigh.
Posted by ladd at 06:18 PM in Legislature, Healthcare, MS Newspapers, Analysis | Email this entry
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Here’s an online petition against the abortion legislation. It’s addressed to Barbour.
Posted by on 04/05 at 08:21 PM | #
I do have one nitpick with the article. Charlie Mitchell says:
The new law would extend criminality to providing medicines prescribed to induce an abortion, which weren’t available before 1973 when all such procedures involved physical invasion of a uterus.
Actually, medicines have been available to induce abortion since the dawn of human history. Wild carrot (Queen Ann’s Lace) and Pennyroyal have been used since ancient times. There was also a highly effective genus of parsley, called silphium, that rumor had it was the best abortifacient out there for ancient Romans--but it became so popular that the species actually went extinct.
Today there are safer abortifacients, such as RU-486, but there were definitely drugs out there, the day before Roe and 4,000 years before Roe, that served the same basic function.
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/06 at 01:01 AM | #
"genus of parsley” --> “species of parsley.” Bother.
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 04/06 at 01:01 AM | #
