Yesterday I ranted about the abortion ban and it seems that a lot of you have a fire lit under your asses now. Good...means that my ass isn't the only one of fire. woo!

So what's the world like now? Well the ban doesn't apply to four specific doctors and a NY judge halted enforcement.

That leads me to point out one aspect of the abortion debate that isn't talked about a lot. Most of the providers out there are old men. Old men who are ready to retire. Us women are relying on old men to provide a much needed service. I'm not bashing the guys...thank you for your service! But the number of abortion providers under 50 is small. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 87% of US counties lack an abortion provider. EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT. Some would like to attribute this decline to more doctors not wanting to perform the procedure...I only wish. Then it would be more easy to understand.

I attribute the lack of providers to:

1) the number of medical schools not teaching the procedure at all. If you don't want to know, then step out of the class. But providing an abortion is an important medical procedure to know. How many women need to have a miscarriage completed by a doctor? That's an abortion, folks. The gods induced it and sometimes a doctor has to clean it up.

2) the violence. If you knew you had a higher risk of being shot, fire-bombed, having acid thrown on your face, or just called a baby killer every day, would you want to work there?

I pray that this is what will wake-up the pro-choice majority in America. If not, don't be surprised if we have to resort to performing our own abortions on each other.

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