“True or False. If Roe were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion would immediately become illegal in the United States.”

Well, false, but you can feel certain that it would lead to an onslaught in the state legislatures against access to adequate health care and women’s rights.

“What percentage of abortions are performed because of rape or incest?”

How did an anti-choice organization get any real figures for this answer? If I were raped or was having sex with a member of my family, I don’t think I’d talk to them about it on a “questionnaire” after aborting the fetus. Sheesh!

“Which of our nation’s founding documents contains the phrase “right to an abortion”? ”

None. But neither do we have the right to an appendectomy, the right to wear pink underwear, nor the right to create fake “quizzes” on the Internet to lure people into “agreeing” with our political agendas. Yet these rights follow from our Constitutional protections.

Roe is not a perfect ruling, but it helped to establish a society in which women no longer had to seek out the permission of review boards, doctors, their husbands, and the government for painful, personal, life-altering decisions. Don’t let propaganda from a set of right-wing organizations mislead you: Roe was an important step towards equal and fair treatment of women in this country.

The problem is, America doesn’t know Roe….

The Roe IQ Test, created by Focus on the Family, Alliance Defend Fund, Concerned Women for America, and Family Research Council, is a 12-question quiz designed to gauge what the country knows about the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

More than 40,000 test-takers have taken the Roe IQ Test (http://www.roeiqtest.com/ui/), and most of them flunked (http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000006308.cfm), earning an average score of only 58 percent. What makes this more striking is that polling indicates that the more people understand Roe, the less likely they are to support it.

Today—January 22—marks the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. Many of the people who will vote in this year’s presidential election weren’t even alive when the ruling was handed down. Isn’t it time that we refreshed our collective memory about this decision that has enabled the premature deaths of tens of millions of children?