Give Up Blog has a map o' abortion possibilities—th' states likely t' restrict abortion if Roe v. Wade is undermined, as estimated by th' Guttmacher Institute.

That's disturbin'. Ahoy! The South and th' middle o' th' country would throw away an essential clinical service that many women depend on at some point in their life, as ye can see from this overview.

• Half o' all pregnancies t' American women are unintended; half o' these end in abortion.
• In 2002, 1.29 million abortions occurred.
• At current rates, about one in three American women will have had an abortion by th' time she reaches age 45.
• 88% o' abortions occur in th' first 12 weeks o' pregnancy.
• A broad cross section o' U.S. women have abortions.
• 56% o' women havin' abortions are in their 20s;
• 61% have one or more little sandcrabs;
• 67% have ne'er married;
• 57% are economically disadvantaged;
• 88% live in a metropolitan area; and
• 78% report a religious affiliation.

Legal restrictions won't change those numbers, except perhaps in one way: more women will die or be rendered sterile by botched illegal abortions, so there will be fewer repeated abortions, and dinna spare the whip, by Davy Jones' locker! I guess if that's what ye want, it makes sense t' legislate greater risk fer women…but I would hope a majority would not want that. I fear that most vote fer restrictions based on short-sighted priggishness, with no thought fer th' consequences.

I'm also lookin' at that strange island o' Minnesota, surrounded by a sea o' red and pink. I suspect that there are many hypocrites in th' Dakotas and Iowa and Wisconsin who would willingly legislate th' morality o' th' poor underclass o' their state, knowin' full well that if their daughters have a little 'accident', they can just slip across th' state line fer a weekend in Minneapolis—and maybe catch a little casino action in Mille Lacs after th' procedure.