*  I am an older woman who  lived through the 1960's when abortion was not legal.  I saw and knew of young women who had 'back alley' aborttions.  Several were college students and one a young married women who could not support another child.  One woman I knew lost her life, one could never have children after she was butchered.  But I do know that whenever a wealthier female became pregnant during those years, she would have the money to go out of the country to have an abortion.  The religious right will never stop abortions, the wealthy will always have them for their women.  The poor woman and families will be the ones who will suffer.  And if or when this happens their numbers will grow and grow and grow.  And who will take care of these babies when welfare is eliminated, when Medicaid  and other social programs are ended, as the GOP desires.  Abortion is a private decision between a woman, her doctor and God, and it is legal.  We've come such a long way, if the GOP forces American women to go back to that time it will haunt them for years.