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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, since there are so many arguments against the details of OP's post, let's distill this down.

Romney/Ryan have won the November 2012 election and in January are sworn in.  The Republicans have won enough swing states that they now have both a Senate and House majority.  In the first 6 weeks, they push through a storm of bills that defund any organization that supports abortion, including PP.  Much like DOMA, the Republicans force through a Defense of Children Act and DOCA is the law of the land making abortions illegal.  The Republicans have overturned ACA and it no longer requires people to have insurance.  A young black woman who works as a waitress in a small diner, making just enough to pay her rent, utilities and food gets pregnant.  She finds out that the child has a birth defect that will be costly for medical coverage, but she has no medical insurance coverage because she cannot afford it.  She makes just over the poverty level, so is not eligible for Medicaid.  Due  to complications, she has to take two weeks off to have the baby.  She doesn't get paid.  She no longer has enough to pay her rent, let alone medical bills.

What is she supposed to do?  If she can make it there, she can eat in a soup kitchen, but for the 2 weeks, she's on bedrest so can't take the bus to get to the soup kitchen.  And she doesn't have bus fare anyways.  But she's not allowed to abort the baby, she is about to be evicted because she cannot pay her rent and she has no means of child support, so even if she could go back to work, she has no one to take care of her child and has to stay home to care for the baby.
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Throw one more factor into the equation - A liberal Justice has resigned due to health, not an unfathomable concept give the age of the justices  and pre-existing medical conditions at the moment.  The new justice who is ultra conservative is approved.   Next very legal maneuver available is employed to overturn Roe V Wade in record time.  Now no abortion for any reason is available to any woman in the USA.  Both Romney and Ryan have said they want to overturn Roe, this is much closer to reality than is comfortable [/quote]

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