Texas Abortion Ban: Women Already Resorting to Back-Alley Abortions

[babylonsister]

http://www.policymic.com/articles/54119/texas-abortion-ban-women-already-resorting-to-back-alley-abortions

Texas Abortion Ban: Women Already Resorting to Back-Alley Abortions
Jessica Huseman


The unintended consequences of Texas’s controversial abortion restrictions have already started to pile up, even though the law hasn’t yet passed. In South Texas, women are already buying potentially unsafe abortion pills at outdoor flea markets. This is hardly the “ideal world” Governor Rick Perry imagined.

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As Reuters reports, health care providers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley have already seen women bleeding and suffering from incomplete abortions after taking Cytotec, a pill that induces abortion, without medical supervision. The women, who live in one of the state’s poorest areas, have been using such pills since the state cut funding for birth control in 2011. If women's health clinics will become more expensive, or fewer and farther between, unsupervised use of such pills is expected to rise.

Women used to have to make a trip to Mexico, where pharmacies can legally sell the drugs without a prescription. But black market importation recently began bringing the pills into Texas, where they can be found with relative ease in flea markets. Residents say all you need to do is ask for it.

While the FDA has approved use of the pill to induce abortions within seven weeks of pregnancy, women who buy the pills illegally are rarely given correct instructions on how to use them. Reuters reports that a man selling the pills in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas recommended an initial dose of two pills orally and one vaginally, followed by two pills every hour “until something happens.” Unfortunately, that “something” could be be premature birth or uterine rupture.

Perry’s stated “obligation to protect the health and safety” of Texas's citizens seems less and less like the real reason for his almost obsessive support of this bill. It’s time for Perry and his party to confront the realities of their policies.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Perry and men like him are disgusting SOB's who should never have been elected.

[CrispyQ]

2. But these men are "pro-life."

They make me sick & I'm not ashamed to admit I'd like to commit physical violence against each one of them with a swift, hard kick to their private parts.

[Rain Mcloud]

3. C'mon now.

When they pass legislation against peoples it is not out of some high minded moral position.
This is only business to them.
Those peoples who need government assistance are the competition.
They do not want the government telling them what to do and they do not want the government spending their tax dollars on things of which they do not approve.
They are the producers and the job creators and without them the universe would freeze solid due to monetary and spiritual entropy.

They feel that the reason that they are over taxed is because the lazy bums(who wont hold down three low-wage jobs) amongst us are on the handout and the government complies in order to buy their votes.

If the government cuts off these moochers then the government can get on with helping those who really matter and the deadbeats can F/O and die,problem solved.
Lower taxes are the aim and what little they do pay will be refunded and then some with lucrative contracts and subsidies.

If promiscuous women have to go to back alley clinics and face the dangers of eclampthemasia or peritonitis or even death through hemorrhaging then who gives a shit? They do not!
They want lower taxes and lower wages so that they can compete against and acquire the competition with the help instead of hindrance by the government.

They are the only ones who matter,not you and not me.
Some vagina some where will spit out another slave to take our place but they are the reason that life exists at all.

I say they do not deserve to smell my shit!
They should be interred in a mental facility for OCD as the acquisition of this grandiose scale of wealth and power can only be propelled by delusions of grandeur and small penis syndrome.

[surrealAmerican]

4. I doubt that this is an "unintended consequence".

The people who passed these laws may sound stupid, but even they know this is what will happen.

[cynatnite]

5. We've been calling them flea market abortions....

Every politician who supports these restrictions has blood on their hands.

[Iliyah]

6. Comes on

y'think GOPers care? Nope.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Wrong- it is exactly the world...

Perry and his ilk imagined.