Monday, March 10, 2014

When abortions aren't legal, women turn to less safe methods to end unwanted pregnancies. That's why Roe v. Wade was decided.

Women again asking partners to beat them, "much like pre-Roe." Laws don't prevent abortions. (Click on this link to read more)

 Amy Hagstrom Miller, Whole Women's Health founder in McAllen, Texas:
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"We're also seeing more and more women take matters into their own hands... People go over the border, they get medication to try to self-induce abortion, and so sometimes they'll come to us afterward for an ultrasound, to see if they're still pregnant. Sometimes they'll be actively bleeding... So we saw an increase in self-induction... With flea markets, with crossing the border...
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The sad thing is, with the misuse of the medication, something that is actually pretty safe, women could really do harm to themselves not knowing what they're doing...
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We have seen women putting things into their vagina trying to dilate their cervix, we've seen people ask their partner to beat them, just the same stories we heard pre-Roe. We've seen people doing douching with Coke or douching with Lysol... It's very much like pre-Roe...
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This law didn't do anything to prevent the need for abortion... We just blocked their access to getting it safely... It's obvious we're gonna have a public health problem on our hands."

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