Thirty states have tried and failed to prosecute women for child neglect, manslaughter, and delivering drugs to a minor. If a state could prosecute or confine a woman for allegedly delivering drugs to a fetus through the umbilicus or by using crack cocaine, it could do the same for cigarettes and alcohol. It might require a pregnancy police to monitor the women and investigate miscarriages, scaring women away from prenatal care and harming fetuses more than drug use. It is a treatment for endometriosis, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer. And, by speeding the dilation of the cervix, RU-486 makes childbirth easier and reduces the number of cesarean sections.
Foes increase teen parenthood by limiting access to abortion, contraception, and condoms.
They refuse to curb AIDS transmission by widespread condom distribution. Localities, such as Dobbs Ferry, expend large amounts of tax dollars to prosecute clinic protesters. Anti-abortion politicking has moved Congress far to the right regarding personal liberty, social issues, public education, environmental protection, and separation of church and state.