■"Outsourced surgery has leg up on cost: 'Many foreigners Ö worry about safety standards,'" by Ramola Talwar Badam (AP), Indianapolis Star, 26 September 2005, p. A2.

Think about this: if medical tourism (surgery plus air fare abroad) is cutting rates on standard major surgeries by two-thirds, think of what it could do for something as simple and quick as an abortion?

Then think about how pointless it might be for a future Supreme Court to try and reverse Roe v. Wade. Decades ago, you had to be a rich woman to travel abroad for your "quiet" abortion. My bet is, if Roe v. Wade were reversed, we'd see a huge "abortion tourism" industry emerge that no one in America could control, no matter what laws we passed.

That's what globalization has done to America. We can't be isolationist even on something as seemingly a domestic issue as abortion.

Count on it.