Schmashmortion In Schmacago

By Margaret Lyons in News on Jan 21, 2008 7:13PM

Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, so anti-choice protesters marched downtown yesterday and Trib editorial board members wrote syndicated columns calling abortion "evil".

But there are pro-choice activists working throughout Chicago and Illinois, too, and today's Trib has a story about the the Chicago Abortion Fund, a group that helps poor women pay for abortions. The CAF also works to destigmatize abortion by holding "leadership groups" and launching a public access TV show. There's also the Midwest Access Project, which "envisions a society in which integrated, comprehensive reproductive health care is fully accessible to all."

Nationwide, abortion rates continue to decline, but 2006 saw a slight increase in the number of abortions in Illinois.

Oh, and Steve Chapman? When you write "Try to imagine a fairy tale in which the heroine has an abortion and lives happily ever after," we don't have to imagine--and it's not a fairy tale. At current rates, one in three American women will have an abortion by the time she's 45. Seems like people are living happily ever after after all.

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