I have cried. I can't help it. I keep remembering my lovely and dear, departed cousin. She had severe Type I Diabetes. She came close to dying so many times throughout her teens as puberty threw her delicate dance with maintaining her Diabetes all out of control. To be clear… she never got pregnant; and, she passed when she was in her early 20s. But, when she passed, she was actually planning to have her tubes tied because she knew a pregnancy would kill her. But, how many young women are out there like her? How many of them are teenagers who may find themselves pregnant? And, we know that around half of abortions were sought AFTER birth control failed. How many of them will find themselves pregnant and die because they cannot get an abortion?

I also remember my mother's friend with Aplastic Anemia, who died before she was 40. She was dignosed after she'd already had two children in her early 20s. She couldn't have another child. What happens to women like her now?

My Gran told me about a nine year old girl, the daughter of her neighbor with whom she wept as they tried to save the little girl. The little girl almost bled to death from being raped by a grown man. Her mom had to resort to a back-alley abortion and almost died again. Gran said her "womb was torn" and that she probably would never be a mother. How many more girls will now face such a fate here… in America… "the land of the free…" in the richest, most powerful, most medically advanced nation in the world.