As many in the Republican party continue to remind us, the end of Roe doesn’t end abortion access, it just returned abortion restrictions to the states which suits them quite well. Given the difficulty in changing laws in the United States, at least at the federal level, enough blue states have majorities to block any national abortion policy. This allows Republicans to maintain their faux moral superiority without losing access to abortion. There will be little pressure to change the laws in red states because middle class women will still have access to abortion. Maybe, it is an inconvenient trip but worth it all so that the Republicans can say they protect the lives of unborn babies.

Poor women in red states, however, will bear the brunt of this decision. Poor women will be the ones getting illegal and dangerous abortions and suffering the consequences to their health and from the law. It will be poor women having unwanted children. It will be poor women delivering children with expensive and difficult to care for birth defects.

Since abortion is likely to stay legal in at least some states. What really is accomplished here? Women with financial ability still can get their risk free abortions while it becomes even more difficult and dangerous for poor women to get their abortions. Why are we punishing the poor for their mistakes while the middle class and the rich get away with their’s.

What a strange country we live in. Billionaires can pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes because they are job creators. When, in fact, there is no obligation for them to do so and no one checking to see if they do. While working poor people are kept in low paying jobs and prevented from accessing anything that might liberate them from the burdens they carry. Healthcare is difficult for them to get. Higher education is difficult for them to get. And now abortions are more difficult for them to get.

Perhaps if doyens of business could see poor people differently. The poor are already connected to the market economy and just need a little help here and there to make it possible for them to bring even more dollars to market. This means more money in your pocketbook if you could just see it in your hearts to treat them half way decently. These aren’t just people, they are an untapped market.