I had forgotten that Michigan has a law on the books that bans abortion- that is what Dick meant the other night when he said "the laws are sufficient". He was trying to evade the question in the debate by not stating his position for all to see, but now has come clean on Catholic radio. Dick knows his audience.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos told a Catholic radio program that he'd be "thrilled" if the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a woman's right to an abortion is overturned and abortion is sharply restricted in Michigan.
Before the court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade, Michigan had a law banning abortion except to save the mother's life, a position DeVos shares. The state law was superseded when the court issued its opinion, but it could be enforced again — or a new ban passed — if that decision is overturned by the high court.
"As soon as Roe v. Wade is overturned, which I think we all pray that it will be ... we will revert back to Michigan law," DeVos said Thursday in an interview with Al Kresta, host of the syndicated Catholic talk show "Kresta in the Afternoon" on Ave Maria Radio. "We would go back to that standard, and I would be thrilled about it."
Yes, Dick will be thrilled when women are forced into the underground and die from botched jobs. Dick will be thrilled that we have created a whole new criminal class to prosecute. And notice how Dick projects his opinion onto everyone by saying "we all pray that it will be". Dick thinks he speaks for everyone.
Dick will be overjoyed when this starts to happen-
Supporters of abortion rights cite the estimate that some 5,000 women a year died from illegal and unsafe abortions before the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Opponents call the figure grossly exaggerated, noting that after the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, the official count of abortion-related deaths plummeted — to 193 by 1965.
Abortion rights supporters argue that those figures badly underestimate how many deaths actually occurred; they say very few doctors and parents wanted to admit that their patients or daughters died from illegal procedures.
"You have to know that it is estimated that there were up to 1.2 million illegal abortions every year, so this 5,000 is four-tenths of 1 percent. I think it's actually an understated number," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told The Associated Press. "I personally believe it's higher than that, given the fact that these were back-alley, and a lot of them done in unsanitary situations."
Hey- we have antibiotics now, so only a few women will die, right?
According to the Guttmacher Institute, the best estimates of abortion-related deaths suggest that the number of women who died from abortion-related causes was significantly higher before the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, which permitted more effective treatment of the infections that frequently developed after illegal abortion.
In 1930, abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women; in 1940, that number had declined to just under 1,700; in 1950, the number fell dramatically to 316.
By 1965, the official count of abortion-related deaths had fallen to 193 but, because abortion was illegal during those years, it is probable that the number of deaths due to abortion was much greater than officially reported, the Guttmacher Institute said.
So, Dick will be thrilled when only a few women die. Young, poor, frightened women. As before, the rich will be able to fly away and "take care" of the problem.
Back to the Dark Ages for Michigan under a DeVos regime.