It's Not So Easy

How do you go back? Once there is the momentum of legislation, how do you extract the government from the issue? Once you start down the road of bans and laws, how do you get back on the path of decriminalization and legalization? Is it even possible? Was the repeal of the 18th Amendment an anomaly? It seems like everyday, the government infects more and more of our lives; everything is subject to a law. Everything we do, say, or even think is subject to scrutiny, judged, found lacking and punished, or found worthy and ignored. How have we let this happen to our society? How have we gotten to the point where 100 people (mostly men), who are not doctors, can sit around in a room and make decisions that affect every American woman's medical health? The more we fight it, the more entrenched the abortion opponents become, pushing for more and more restrictions, little by little making it a losing cause for the libertarian, the pro-choice advocate, and the very real person who is a woman in crisis who needs anything but the government telling her how to handle that crisis.