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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

      A lot of discussion about abortion at the moment, so I thought I'd do a thread on a common myth - that abortion bans prevent abortions 1/

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

      I'm not going to discuss ethics and morality here, because that's obviously dicey There may be no right or wrong answers to the ethical questions There are definitely right answers to the factual ones 2/

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

      There is currently no good evidence that abortion bans prevent abortions 3/pic.twitter.com/kFWiji4iLY

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

      There have been quite a few studies on this - what we usually see when abortions are banned/restricted is that abortion rates barely change 4/pic.twitter.com/15BKFx5IGb

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

      (The rates are falling generally, but the rate of decline doesn't change if you implement bans or restrictions, it just keeps going down slowly) 5/

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

      If we look at the global context, countries with MORE restrictions on abortion almost always have HIGHER rates of abortion 6/pic.twitter.com/OK3jgZjvwH

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          The problem here is that these countries are often very different to countries that don't implement abortion bans in many ways 7/

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          However, if we look at what happened after the US banned the provision of international aid services for the purposes of abortion, the affected countries saw INCREASES in abortion rates 8/pic.twitter.com/hEj5zpXLyw

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          This increase in abortion rates is likely due to a reduction in family planning services, because ironically one thing we definitely do know is that contraception access affects abortion rates 9/

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          This has been very well demonstrated - if you want to reduce abortions, the best method is to improve access to contraception 10/pic.twitter.com/T7z0olVJnc

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          One thing abortion bans may do is reduce the rate of REPORTED abortions This makes perfect sense - people are less likely to report abortion when it's a crime 11/

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          However, it's been pretty well-demonstrated that reported rates of abortions are much lower than the true rate, and that criminalizing abortion just makes this problem even worse 12/

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        8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          So abortion bans don't stop abortions What DO they do? 13/

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        9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          The main thing that has been consistently found from abortion bans is that they increase the rates of unsafe abortions 14/pic.twitter.com/7aWTEjd6rV

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        10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          What does "unsafe" mean? The WHO defines an unsafe abortion as: "[terminating an] unintended pregnancy either by people lacking the necessary skills or in an environment that does not conform to minimum medical standards, or both" 15/

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        11. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          If that sounds too clinical for you, here are some examples that have been found by researchers looking into unsafe abortions 16/pic.twitter.com/UZqiHTn8VQ

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        12. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          To highlight a few of these: - drinking bleach/acid - throwing self off roof/stairs - sticking bicycle spokes into vagina 17/

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        13. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          The WHO estimates that about 45% of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with rates highest in countries that have abortion bans, restrictions, or have poorer provision of family planning services 18/pic.twitter.com/4yoPJuZWiw

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        14. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          So, to recap: - abortion bans don't reduce the rates of abortion - they DO increase the rates of UNSAFE abortion - the most effective way to prevent abortion is contraceptives/family planning 19/

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        15. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2019

          More importantly, if someone says that they support abortion bans because they want to see fewer abortions, they are either incorrect or not telling the truth 20/fin

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