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Billboards advise on how to get abortion pills in US states where procedure is banned
Mobile billboards on how to get access to pills by mail are being driven through college campuses in 14 states
Women living under abortion bans in the US are being offered advice on how to get access to abortion pills by mail, through a system of mobile billboards which are being driven through college campuses in 14 states carrying the prohibition.
The billboards are the creation of Mayday.Health, a non-profit set up in the wake of the US supreme courts ruling last June that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. The posters carry QR codes that link to online information providing a step-by-step guide on how to obtain the abortion pill even in states which have banned it.
We wish that everybody could just get these medications as easily as you can get Tylenol or Viagra in this country. Where theres a will, theres a way, Jennifer Lincoln, Maydays president, told Mississippi Public Broadcasting, referring to common brands of painkiller and erectile dysfunction medication.
Maydays bid to help women circumvent tight anti-abortion restrictions that are now in place in 26 states is part of a storm of legal activity around the abortion pill. Advocates on both sides of the bitter struggle are anxiously awaiting the decision of a federal district judge in Amarillo, Texas who could move any day now to impose an injunction on mifepristone, the first pill used in the two-drug abortion pill protocol.
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Maydays billboard is touring campuses in Jackson, Missippi; Austin and Dallas in Texas; Boise, Idaho and in other anti-abortion states.
Lincoln urged women to obtain the medication irrespective of their personal situation, saying they need not wait for a crisis but should order them now to know youve got this in your back pocket.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/03/abortion-pill-billboards-us-states-bans
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Mobile billboards advise on how to get abortion pills in US states where procedure is banned (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Mar 2023
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Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)1. I hope they know to be super-careful driving around.
I can see these trucks being targeted by LEOs, road ragers, and other assorted RW wackos.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)2. K&R
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)3. Kick
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,129 posts)4. K&R