The rhetoric surrounding the abortion issue has gone to the extreme. All I hear about is how these men or these states are at "war" with women, how they are denying women their rights, blah, blah, blah. What rights? The right to murder your unborn child simply because he or she is inconvenient? To hear them tell it, we are back to the days when women were property, when women stayed at home -- barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. These broads weren't around when the only careers for women were teacher, secretary or nurse. And women only worked till they got married. In fact, I once worked with a woman who was asked on job interviews as a young girl, if she intended to get married in the near future. If she said "yes," prospective employers would not hire her. They reasoned that it was too costly to hire and train a woman only to have her marry and then quit If they hired a married woman, these employers expected she would take off too much time from work tending to her family. Many jobs were closed to women because it was assumed that women weren't strong enough or smart enough or dedicated enough to handle them.
These women today have more careers, better education and more opportunities than even my generation ever had. And still they are complaining. No one is taking anything away from them, except perhaps forbidding them from doing something that, until Roe v. Wade, was considered a crime and still should be.