To the children of Phoenix, Arizona who gathered around their TVs in the early 1960s, she was the cheerful host of a syndicated show called Romper Room, known simply as Miss Sherri.
Finkbine helped put the issue on the global map. Her story illustrates just how long women have been getting on planes and trains and crossing time zones in order to get safe access to abortion. While the concept of travelling for an abortion has never fully faded, it’s back in the spotlight, thanks to a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that suggests the right to abortion in the U.S. will soon be struck down.
Finkbine, already a mother of four, tried to go to Japan, but was denied a visa. Then, she and her husband travelled to Sweden, a country that made abortions legal on some medical grounds starting in 1938, where she was able to get a safe and legal abortion. “I mean, many had never been out of the country before. And they did have to pay,” she says. “It was very stressful; there was no two ways about it.”Abortion will likely remain accessible in U.S. states that create their own laws, and the states that do away with it entirely are predominantly in the southern half of the country, making it unlikely that they’d travel as far as Canada, she said.
As a publicly funded clinic, it gets a set amount of money for abortions every year, but typically does between a quarter and a third more than it is funded for, she said. The stopgap is made up through fundraising and other services that it provides.
Everyone in Libtardville could not even Define what a woman was 2 weeks ago. The Birthing People with penis's have taken over your cult. Too bad for women, but you did bring it on yourselves.
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