It Wasn't Supposed To Be This Generation's Fight

On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court made its historic (7-2) decision overturning a Texas interpretation of abortion law and making abortion legal in the United States.

The Roe v. Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without legal restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on the right to privacy.

Today, almost exactly 40 years later, I spent the day on the lawn of the Arizona Capitol Building demonstrating and rallying against a legislature that has been turning the clock back on women's reproductive rights in this state with lightening speed over the past three years.

It is so bad in Arizona that if you are of child-bearing age, you could be pregnant now.  That's because the law defines the fertilization at two weeks before you know (or medical science knows) you are pregnant, setting the time-frame for abortions as the most resrictive in the country.  

In AZ, a doctor shall not tell a mother if there is something wrong with the pregnancy which may want her to terminate it.  There are restrictions regarding contraceptives and the 'morning after' pill.  Abortion is all but impossible to get, even though it is still the law of this land.

Forty years later.  

Save Roe.

EDIT:  Let me make one thing clear.  I am not "pro-abortion."  I am "pro-choice."  I believe it is every woman's right to have control over her own body.