Holy. Shit. This is the war on women.

[kpete]

We do not have large enough surveys to discern behavior in different states or to track how it has changed over time — and in any case, people may not feel comfortable sharing the truth in a survey.

Google searches can help us understand what’s really going on. They show a hidden demand for self-induced abortion reminiscent of the era before Roe v. Wade.

This demand is concentrated in areas where it is most difficult to get an abortion, and it has closely tracked the recent state-level crackdowns on abortion.



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/the-return-of-the-diy-abortion.html?ref=opinion

[Brickbat]

1. Outlawing abortion does not end abortion. It ends safe abortions.

Outlawing abortions hurts women. Women will always work to control their own bodies. Always. No matter the law.

[progressoid]

8. Exactly. n/t

[PatrickforO]

2. That is what the Republicans and their fundy 'christian' base want.

Women to be subservient, barefoot, and pregnant.

[Warpy]

3. ...or mutilated or dead and it's all their own fault, the sluts

Men can't be expected to control themselves, ever.

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. Precisely.

A holdover from the dominant religion's Bronze Age regional origins, to be blunt. Religiously-driven misogyny, and they want it to be institutionalized misogyny, as well.

[Bucky]

4. If you shut down Planned Parenthood clinics you increase cancer rates & thus reduce abortion numbers

They whackjobs think of everything

[rurallib]

5. Thank you for posting this

I have daughters of child bearing age. If needed they should be able to seek and receive any legal medical procedure at any hospital in the US at any time.

One of them lived in Mississippi at the time they were having a referendum to make abortion nearly impossible to get. Pregnancy could kill her and she lived in great fear of accidentally getting pregnant.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[spanone]

9. the gop, taking america back to the 50's

[olddots]

10. the 1850s

[riversedge]

11. rec

[Sparky 1]

12. I remember how it was before Roe v Wade

Except we didn't have the Internet. Girls -- teenage girls afraid to tell their parents, and some of them rightly so -- died sometimes. A friend of mine drank a whole bottle of quinine and her ears rang for three days. She's lucky she didn't die. RvW saved a lot of lives.