Part 3 of 3—Two months after #Dobbs
As predicted, new and horrifying scenarios detailing the suffering caused by #criminalization of life-saving #abortionaccess make the national news each day. Access to #abortion is a poor and/or low-wealth person’s issue.
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1—“Two months without abortion rights” and “DAY 2.” Below,, " In European countries where abortion is easily available, free of cost, and not stigmatized, the actual rate of abortions performed is roughly half that in the US, adjusted for population differences."
2—“A timeline of needless suffering: June 2022” and “A ten year old child underwent a medical abortion in Indiana, after being raped in her home state of Ohio, which had a 'trigger ban' that took effect once the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling was made official.”
3—“A timeline of needless suffering: July 2022” and “A Texas woman requested an abortion after miscarrying one of her twins at 15 weeks but was told her life wasn’t sufficiently endangered in order to receive the procedure. Weeks later, with sepsis and resulting kidney damage, she was allowed an abortion.” Then "August 2022" it says, " A mother in Nebraska who previously assisted her 17 year old daughter obtain abortifacient medicines and induce an abortion, was charged with a felony because of Nebraska’s 20 week abortion ban."
4—“Where are forced-birth advocates focusing next?” under which is “The majority of these groups are now working to erode legal exceptions to abortion bans that allow abortions in cases of rape and incest. Some groups are also building on state laws that allow the genetic father of a fetus (or related family members) to bring legal claims against health professionals that provided abortion care to a pregnant person or that pregnant person themselves.”
