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1/ It's not a big mystery what would happen if abortion were suddenly illegal across large parts of the US. In many places, it already might as well be illegal – it's that inaccessible – and the accounts of what that looks like are sobering.
These are excerpts from letters US women wrote to a website that provides abortion drugs to countries where abortion is illegal.
Women on Web shared them with me when I was a @GuardianUS reporter.pic.twitter.com/Cvbpk3hpDW
(I can't tell you how many letter writers were deadly afraid that their partners would harm them because they had gotten pregnant. That was a huge theme.)
In the same article, I followed a Texas woman who couldn't afford an abortion as she traveled to Mexico & back to buy abortion pills and end her pregnancy on her own. The experience was terrifying and she could easily have been prosecuted, but it worked.http://bit.ly/2fi6t57
[Graphic] This is from an interview with one of the only abortion providers in Louisiana. He began performing abortions in 1975 – when it was legal, but not widely available. Women who took matters into their own hands were mutilating themselves.pic.twitter.com/sV3K3RRy0w
Today, many women buy abortion pills online. But it can be difficult to find reliable instructions or know if you're buying a trustworthy product. And there are still women who don't have that option and try to end pregnancies with poison or sharp objects http://bit.ly/2GgXsYM pic.twitter.com/8NdceJLuK4
Trump has said that if Roe v Wade were overturned, women can simply travel to other states. But the time, expense, and logistics involved can prove insurmountable.
Courtesy of a Texas abortion fund, here are some of the real-life routes TX women had to take in order to get an abortion. Ask yourself, does every single woman in your life have access to this kind of time, money, and support, every day of her life?pic.twitter.com/NOjKGj0UVe
All of this is to say nothing of what can happen when women in emergency situations are denied abortion, or procedures that religious institutions consider to be an abortion (regardless of whether most doctors would agree)http://bit.ly/2ldhCeg
"Should" women take these actions? To each her own opinion. I'm a reporter, I'm here to tell you what the best evidence tells us *will* happen in a world without Roe. (Exactly what happened last time.)
It's so hard to watch your Country go down this road in 2018, when my country finally a month ago by a landslide gave girls & women CHOICE. #sendinghugs
This thread actually hurts my heart. It has taken us three decades plus to right the wrongs of the past, & now seeing another country/states going backwards is genuinely upsetting.
It's heartbreaking, such a time to live in. Hopefully, November midterms & Investigation will stop this madness
It’s fatiguing how unkind the discussion can be to women, for whom I am sure abortion is never an easy choice. I don’t think anyone belongs in that decision except the parents; it’s a private matter and shouldn’t be a public policy issue. On this issue, I am a libertarian.
Unfortunately others feel differently. The debate reduces women to nothing more than an object who’s sole purpose is childbirth. It’s hurtful, degrading & so wrong. Women know their own minds & bodies. No one else should have control over that. Only hope things work out for Ye!
As other countries continue to expand their horizons and let women be truly free to do as they wish with their own bodies, under TRUMP we are potentially setting ourselves back 50 years and making abortions (that will still happen) SO much more unsafe and damaging. SAD!
What's sad is that babies are separate from their mothers' bodies and yet society has no problem killing them.
NO ONE, including myself, should have ANY SAY in any woman’s body. You don’t know these women and no one is hurting you. It’s a woman’s decision to make. Maybe she knows she’ll be a shit mom, it might kill her to give birth, etc. none. Of. Your. Business.
What about the baby? A baby is it's own entity, it is not its mother's body! I don't care what a woman does with her body. I care about the baby.
Limit of viability is 24 weeks. That is, a fetus has a 50% chance of surviving outside of the womb at 24 weeks. Its not a linear graph, and 'long-term' is a subjective thing. There are developmental issues etc etc etc.
So at least until 6th month of the pregnancy a fetus has limited to nil chance of survival without the mother - its is in a very real sense part of, indivisible from the mother.
But that's kinda a distraction, because 70% of abortions are occurring in the first trimester. When survival is nil (like, you are looking at a blatocyst)
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