Truthout: Gulf Residents Are Already Turning to DIY Abortions

[Skidmore]

As long as there have been unwanted pregnancies or pregnancies that were a threat to the health of women, there have been abortions. In every culture, regardless of how stringent the prevailing rules, women find a way to end pregnancies. It shouldn't have to something done in secret or that endangers the woman.

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Gulf Residents Are Already Turning to DIY Abortions
Monday, 07 July 2014 09:15
By Robin Marty, Care2 | Report

With the closures of a number of abortion clinics in Texas, the potential closure of clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge due to the latest doctor admitting privileges law, and a pending identical law being debated in the court in Alabama that could close the clinic in Mobile, the entirety of abortion availability to the pregnant people in the Gulf Coast region is ebbing away.

Even though many of the bills have not yet been fully enforced, already due to previous restrictions mandating multiple clinic visits and waiting periods, those who want abortions are finding them harder to obtain. The cost of the procedure, travel expenses including gas, hotels, child care and other incidental costs, combined with docked pay from taking time off of work, are creating a financial barrier that is already putting abortion out of reach for many.

Unsurprisingly, many women are taking abortion back into their own hands, just as they did prior to the procedure becoming legal.

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[Generic Other]

1. The difference?

There are many women who know how to do the procedure in a safe efficient manner. It will never be entirely in the hands of men anymore. There are chemists who can make morning after pills. There are women who worked in clinics who have expertise. You are not putting the genii back in the bottle.

[wandy]

2. The difference........

If women are forced to take this procedure into their own hands either by chemical concoction or rusty coat hanger, their death is not on the hands of the religiously insane. The god of the religiously insane will hold them blameless.

THAT is what makes the religiously insane so utterly disgusting.

[stevenleser]

4. I think you two are both right.

#1 - The Genie isn't going back into the bottle. Women are not going to be stopped from ending their pregnancies

#2 - The Conservative right is responsible for any DIY abortions that go wrong, even though they are generally safer than they were 40+ years ago.

[Generic Other]

5. They will smuggle the drugs they need or acquire them on the black market

They will have the morning after pills because they will get them from other states. Where there is a demand there will be providers. It will be different than the old days. Not back alley butchers, but an underground of people willing and able to do what needs to be done. And they are not going to use rusty coat hangers and the like. Women are not going to back down to these freaks. At the very least, there will be transportation available to other states. The underground railroad was not just a way for slaves to escape the South. It was the way Vietnam era men avoided the draft. In the same way, their restrictions will not stop women.

[Jefferson23]

3. Backward we move, way back. What a disgrace. K&R