>OK, if we're looking at history: I believe that Kennedy was pro-life. Were women driven into kitchen slavery during his short reign, with coathanger abortions, deaths and all the rest of the horror you seem to associate with McKain being elected to the same position with the same belief?


First, I was speaking on general terms and relating what history would be repeating itself if abortion became illegal. A lot of posts here condemned it as murder to no though to what would happen to women if abortion became illegal. I do not agree with pro-life policies and McCain's statement that his presidency would contain them, ruled him out for me. I was speaking to that. History supports it:

Criminalization of abortion did not reduce the numbers of women who sought abortions. In the years before Roe v. Wade, the estimates of illegal abortions ranged as high as 1.2 million per year.1 Although accurate records could not be kept, it is known that between the 1880s and 1973, many thousands of women were harmed as a result of illegal abortion.

Many women died or suffered serious medical problems after attempting to self-induce their abortions or going to untrained practitioners who performed abortions with primitive methods or in unsanitary conditions. During this time, hospital emergency room staff treated thousands of women who either died or were suffering terrible effects of abortions provided without adequate skill and care.


Are you stating that is innacurate?

I'm saying it did happen and it happened in more families than people know. It wasn't spoken of just like rape, incest, abuse and alcoholism wasn't spoken of.