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It is surreal to watch all this happening. Throwing in my two cents...

I was a young feminist in junior high and high school, I was so grateful when family planning became readily available.

I remember Roe V. Wade being settled.

Many younger people do not remember:

Women trying to get adequate birth control.

Women trying to save up money to get an abortion and have their friends
drive them to another state.

Poor women going to secret abortion clinics, also called "butcher shops"
and getting infections, or worse.

Desperate young teens trying to abort themselves, getting hurt and often
dying, (hence the old "coat hanger" insignias).

It was great, the issue of abortion was finally settled and family planning clinics opened up, and women could move on to issues of equal pay, education, glass ceilings and working to liberate less fortunate countries.

If you had told me this would ever slide backwards, at that time... I would have not believed it. As I grew older, however, I read many a cautionary tale, some historical, some fictional, all with the same message. History can repeat itself.

The saying "Freedom is not Free" is terribly overused and many equate it with war. I feel it means freedom requires vigilance and ongoing work.

The right wing types are clever; they can't just overturn this at the Federal level, so they are working state by state.

To say I am aghast at the numerous bills going through all over the country - is an understatement.

"Head-spinning" describes it perfectly.