I'm afraid I don't have much hope that any comments here will make any real difference. It was amazing to see how most members of the Virginia Board of Education could be so easily intimidated by the Attorney General that they would reverse their position on TRAP simply because they thought they MIGHT get sued and would actually have to dig into their own pockets to defend themselves. Apparently it never dawned on them that so many people would have been so angry at "the Cooch" that they would have raised the funds to hire a legal team. Anyway, this TRAP law is so transparently an attack on a woman's right to control her own body that it just doesn't seem necessary to go over all the arguments again. Instead, I keep thinking back to the history of my own family. Back in 1927, my father's mother was pregnant for the fifth time. She and her husband were recent immigrants who lived in 1927-style poverty. Worse, her husband used to beat her and the kids, and evidently she just couldn't face the thought of bringing another child into that sad situation. So she sought the services of a back-alley abortionist and wound up dying from an infection. Dad and the girls were farmed out into the foster-care system, which basically meant providing unpaid labor to a series of strangers for the next eight years. My grandmother didn't just need access to free, safe and legal abortion, she also needed the ability to leave her husband and raise her kids - including the new one, if she chose that path - with the knowledge that she would have the resources available to provide for her family, without having to depend on an abusive husband to survive. That's what real freedom of choice would have meant for her – not just the freedom to choose, but the ability to choose. Multiply her situation by the millions of women who over the years faced the same no-win choices and you can see how the women's movement that emerged in the Sixties and Seventies was inevitable. Misogynist laws like TRAP will feed the growth of the emerging women's movement until it eventually explodes with a fury that will make the Sixties seem like a walk in the park. And, in the end, that explosion will be the only real guarantee of a women's right to choose.