#abortion bans kill

[killed-by-choice]

FACT: Banning abortion dramatically reduces the rate of abortion— and the number of women dying from abortion

Restrictive state-level abortion policies are associated with not having an abortion at all. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions.

“Women who lived in a state where abortion access was low were more likely than women living in a state with greater access to use highly effective contraceptives rather than no method” Not only are abortion rates lower where abortions are illegal, but unwanted pregnancy rates too. People are more careful. (From the Guttmacher Institute, former statistics arm of Planned Parenthood.) https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2015/05/state-abortion-context-and-us-womens-contraceptive-choices-1995-2010

29% of Medicaid eligible pregnant women who would have an abortion with Medicaid coverage, instead give birth. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions. https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-019-0775-5

Analysis of statewide data from the three States indicated that following restrictions on State funding of abortions, the proportion of reported pregnancies resulting in births, rather than in abortions, increased in all three States. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1580169/pdf/pubhealthrep00193-0013.pdf

Approximately one-fourth of women who would have Medicaid-funded abortions instead give birth when this funding is unavailable … Studies have found little evidence that lack of Medicaid funding has resulted in illegal abortions. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions.

We find that a 100-mile increase in distance to the nearest clinic is associated with 30.7 percent fewer abortions and 3.2 percent more births. Calculated to account for the rate of criminal/illegal abortions.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.22263

rate of abortion is found to be lower in states where access to providers is reduced and state policies are restrictive. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9099567/

A wait time as short as 72 hours is enough to start decreasing abortion rates. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1049386716300603

Abortion decreased after being restricted: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050978/

Michigan banned Medicaid from paying for abortion. Abortion rates dropped. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8135922/

The farther away a woman is from an abortion facility, the less likely she is to get one: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2134397?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Some restrictions were enacted in Eastern Europe in the 80s and 90s. The rates of abortion AND pregnancy rates both decreased.

Fetal development information and required waiting periods lead to less abortion:

A study in Louisiana and Maryland found that laws against abortion were effective at stopping abortions

Countries with abortion bans also have dramatically lower maternal mortality compared to other countries in the region with dangerously permissive abortion laws.

“Contrary to the notion proposing a negative impact of restrictive abortion laws on maternal health, the abortion mortality ratio did not increase after the abortion ban in Chile. Rather, it decreased over 96 percent.”

Mexican states that ban and restrict abortion have better MMR than permissive states: “Over the 10-year period, states with less permissive abortion legislation exhibited lower Maternal Mortality Rates than more permissive states.”

Poland bans all abortion except LotM and has the world’s lowest MMR (2/100000). Malta bans almost all abortions and has MMR of 6/100000

It also works in reverse. Multiple countries have seen an increase in MMR after legalizing abortion.

Guyana legalized abortion and achieved the worst MMR on the continent. (Compare that to Chile, which has constitutional protections for the unborn and an MMR that dropped by over 96% AFTER abortion was banned.)

Ethiopia legalized abortion and it made MMR worse: “Although abortion was not legalised on demand, it was legalised on broad socio-economic grounds: the Center for Reproductive Rights place it in the same category as the UK and Finland which, while not strictly allowing abortion on demand, do allow something close to that in practice.” … “Over the period of legalisation, the proportion of women with septic shock more than doubled, with the same result for organ failure. The proportion admitted to intensive care nearly tripled. Between 2008 and 2014, the percentage of women receiving post-abortion care who have severe complications increased by over 50%, from 7% to 11%. During this time, the proportion of women presenting with organ failure quadrupled, the proportion with peritonitis quintupled, and the proportion with shock nearly doubled.”

Ireland’s once-stellar MMR also increased after legalizing abortion. (Compare to Poland and Malta with almost total bans and to the UK where abortion is essentially legal in demand up to the second trimester.)

The pattern repeats in Asia. Nepal, where there is no restriction on abortion, has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates. (The lowest in the region is Sri Lanka, with a rate fourteen times lower than Nepal and very good restrictions on abortion.)

In addition, less people are being lured into abortion under the false impression that it’s “safe and legal”. If any of them die of illegal abortion, it’s because they knowingly committed a crime. There will no longer be cases like 17-year-old Roselle Owens, Sarah Dunn, Tonya Reaves and Cree Erwin-Sheppard (to name a few) who were killed by abortion because they were lied to about the risks.

#pro life #pro choice #abortion #tw abortion #tw murder #tw death #tw ab*rtion #abortion debate #maternal mortality #death from legal abortion #abortion is not healthcare #abortion is not a right #abortion kills women #abortion bans #abortion bans save lives #abortion bans save women #human rights #maternal health

[tomorrowusa]

While Arizona Republicans pretend that they are really not anti-abortion extremists, the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature dissolved into chaos on Wednesday when an attempt was made to repeal the 1864 pre-statehood law banning almost all abortions in the state. Before the measure could be taken up, the House was gaveled into recess.

Arizona Democrats tried to repeal abortion ban, but Republicans blocked them

Republicans are trying to have it both ways: Restrict abortion as much as possible but make it appear to voters that they are "moderate" on the issue. What happened in the Arizona legislature on Wednesday reveals how MAGA Trump Republicans actually feel deep down inside.

#arizona #abortion #arizona legislature #arizona's extreme abortion ban #republicans #don't be fooled by republicans on abortion #donald trump #the republican war on abortion #trump killed roe v. wade #us supreme court #dobbs v. jackson women's health organization #reproductive freedom #a woman's right to choose #pro-choice #roe v. wade #restore roe #joe biden #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[anamericangirl]

Pro-aborts constantly throw out the line “you know making abortion illegal isn’t going to stop it from it happening, right? It’s not going to change anything.”

Ok. If that’s what you believe and you genuinely think the legality of the issue doesn’t matter and won’t make a difference why not just go ahead and make abortion illegal? :)

#but they also think abortion bans will kill women #consistency is a big issue with pro-aborts #but that’s what happens when your entire ideology is based on a lie and all your talking points are lies

[kitchenalia]

“abortion bans violate jewish religious freedoms!” how about they violate women’s basic freedoms and we shouldn’t be basing abortion laws on jewish laws, either

#i realize that the post isn't explicitly saying to base abortion laws on the talmud #and they're probably trying to make a point about abortion bans being defended as 'religious freedom' #but i just get frustrated. you know? #(also there are plenty of jewish people who only support therapeutic/life-saving abortion) #(some only permit abortion on the basis of the fetus pursuing the mother with the intent to kill) #there's plenty of healthy orthodox sentiment that 'authorities' (men) can judge whether a woman needs an abortion :)

[secretlifeofelephants]

#John Oliver #abortion rights #abortion ban #vote #please vote #Ohio #kentucky #virginia #abortion care is health care #Youtube #reproductive rights #us politics #abortion bans kill people

[riverofrainbows]

I see all the posts about the us election and how Biden sucks bc of supporting the genocide in gaza, and how people shouldn't vote for him. Because it will not make any difference since he already sucks.

Stopping the republicans from winning is the only way to avoid another genocide, a full on genocide on trans and intersex people, and soon following gay people. Don't you fucking dare throw trans and intersex people under the bus. Don't you fucking dare say that republican politics would not be any materially different. If you enable republicans to win trans and intersex people will die, and then you will have blood on your hands. Have fun.

And not voting, or voting for unwinnable microparty nr 37, will not stop them.

The whole world is at the slow tipping point of the descent into (further) fascism right now. And letting a fascist regime into power, not to mention in the USA which has serious international power as we are literally seeing right now, will be part of the downfall. Don't you dare let that fact get out of your sight. If the united states turn openly and fully undemocratic it won't even be possible to stop it again at the next election like with trump, because there will not be a next election.

The critical time for stopping a genocide on trans and intersex people (and preserving any bodily autonomy about pregnancy btw) is right now.

The republicans won't support israel less btw. They will support it more because of their doomsday religious death cult that is at the center of their politics.

And no Biden is not a good choice, but an estimated 1.3 million trans people suffering or dying is not collateral.

#own post #also republicans will kill even more disabled people than the current system does #both directly and by banning more necessary medication because of fertility risks #like do you want to live in the handmaids tale because you will live in the handmaids tale if you let them ban abortion and contraception on #a federal level. which will also kill people. again. #and that's not even all they are also openly horrifically racist and antisemitic and islamophobic

[intelligentchristianlady]

tl;dr:

"Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will introduce abortion-related legislation on Tuesday, according to his office. It's expected to call for a 15-week ban nationwide, with exceptions for rape, incest and safeguarding the life of the mother."

Sounds so reasonable, because only a tiny percentage of abortions take place after 15 weeks, and a majority of voters are in favor of a 15-week cutoff, with the noted exceptions.

But the abortions that take place after 15 weeks are generally medically necessary because of dangerous pregnancies. Those medically necessary abortions are precisely the ones that would be banned by this legislation.

That's what we're voting about in November--because that's what will happen if Republicans take control.

#abortion #abortion legislation #15-week abortion ban #Lindsey Graham #Republicans #GOP #voters #voting #please vote #misogyny #women's rights #reproductive rights #killing women

[aloeverawrites]

Donating to planned parenthood

All donations will be matched, dollar for dollar, until June 30th

#planned parenthood #roe v wade #abortion #pro choice #banning abortion doesn't save lives #it just kills adults and fetuses #educating and support people saves lives #that's just a fact #you can't be pro-life and anti abortion because you are knowingly ending life #serious topics

[patisserieblu]

I desperately wish people would stop trying to convince alt right evangelicals that abortion bans are bad because people will die of pregnancy complications.

They. Don't. Care.

So so many of these hardcore antichoice people believe that being born with a uterus means you were put on earth to use that uterus to create more life. That's it, full stop. They think pregnancy is innate, is easy, is what you were designed for.

And they believe that if pregnancy would kill you, if you are unable to complete that "divine" task, you weren't worth the air you were breathing anyway.

#pro choice #roe v wade #abortion bans kill women #but conservatives do not care and yall gotta stop trying to make them

[thechillseekr]

Saw a post about banned books that specifically named To Kill a Mockingbird and I wanted to reblog it but like 7 people added about a Homer's Odyssey worth of content to it so I'll just say my brother named his first born after the author of Mockingbird so that about sums up where pretty much most of my blood stands on those kinds of topics.

#then theres my mega church going pro trump anti abortion aunt #but like bruno we dont talk about her #banned books #To Kill a Mockingbird

[blujayonthewing]

‘but what about the people that will suffer and die because of abortion bans?’

like... they know, dude. they already know.

#'obviously medical emergencies are tragic and should be exceptions' they're not though?? they're not an exception under abortion bans #'yeah :( it's really sad :( but what can you do :(' #anyway I'm dead inside! #'stop arguing about whether or not a fetus is a person the legal point is bodily autonomy' #I know this and I understand this #but it turns out that the philosophical question of whether my life has more or less value than a potentiality matters very much to me #what is there to even talk about. what do you even say. they're just flipping the switch on the trolley tracks #on a legislative level it's about controlling and punishing women with trans people and kids as collateral damage that doesn't bother them #but like 'politicians are evil' is existentially pretty easy to reckon with #on a pro-life Regular Person level it's about my entire human existence being worth less than any two unwanted pregnancies #if I die of an ectopic pregnancy because I couldn't get an abortion #I have friends who love me who would say it wasn't right or fair but that it doesn't change anything re: legality of abortion access #how do I reconcile that. how do I reconcile that. #god. ask to tag I guess #I'm so tired. I'm so tired. #roe v wade was ruled 20 years before I was born and I live in a state where it's never (afaik) been strongly challenged #I really wasn't prepared for this to be... you know.... yet another rock in my own personal anxiety bucket #'there are women who will kill themselves' THEY KNOW! 'there are child rape victims' THEY FUCKING KNOW. THEY KNOW. IT DOESN'T TIP THE SCALES #'well only 3% of abortions are performed to save the mother's life so' oh. oh. this conversation is over forever huh

[killed-by-choice]

“Tina Roe” (USA 2017)

Recently a decision was made overturning the approval of RU-486 in the United States. While this will undoubtedly save many lives, it came too late for many victims of the abortion pill.

“Tina Roe” was one of many deaths from the legal use of the dangerous RU-486 pill, which is so dangerous it was only approved in the first place with a REMS requirement, a rare restriction reserved for extremely dangerous drugs. Her death was mentioned in a report by the US Government Accountability Office. In the span of a few months, a sponsor detected and reported multiple additional deaths to the FDA that the agency missed entirely— Tina’s death in September 2017 and another one reported in December 2017 (Toni Roe).

The report was made to evaluate labeling changes to the kill pill that would loosen safety standards. The report mentioned concerns that:

• “FDA may only be aware of a fraction of adverse events associated with Mifeprex. There are anecdotal examples of adverse events, such as severe bleeding, that may not be reported as such or that may be interpreted by emergency health care providers as a natural miscarriage. Underreporting may get worse under the revised Mifeprex label, which eliminates the follow-up visit and does not require prescribers to report nonfatal adverse events.”

• “Concerns have also been raised about FDA's oversight of the drug since approval, including the agency's response to deaths in U.S. women who had taken the drug.”

• “FDA may not have reliable data on the number of women who have used Mifeprex, which would affect the denominator for tracking adverse events. With an unclear denominator, FDA may not have an accurate measure of adverse event rates associated with Mifeprex.”

• “Even with additional dispensings beginning in 2012, FDA officials said there were still insufficient data captured to enable a robust safety assessment.”

It is worth mentioning that due to a voluntary reporting system for abortion deaths, we have no idea how many more of these cases there are. Even after reports of Tina and Toni’s deaths and thousands of dangerous events, safety requirements for the lethal pills were still loosened. The decision to remove some of the safety standards was catastrophic and was eventually overturned, but many died in the meantime.

(Please note that the date given is only the date that the FDA found out about her death. She may have died sooner, possibly even years before, but the faulty reporting system sometimes registers deaths far after they actually happen.)

#unsafe yet legal #pro life #death from legal abortion #tw abortion #unidentified victim #victims of roe #abortion #abortion pills kill #abortion bans save lives #tw ab*rtion #tw murder #abortion pill #the abortion pill kills

[cruel-style]

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#abuse tw #thinking about how I thought I was pregnant at 12 and how I just had to do deal with that all by myself #and how fucking traumatic it was to be all alone in it and how I’m still alone with the trauma of it all #this fucking abortion ban could literally kill actually living breathing children who are forced to give birth #I’m just 🥲

[ibuprfn]

whelp abortion is officially illegal in my state. no exceptions for rape or incest either. 

#every nearby state also has bans on abortion so traveling isn't an option either #i wish every conservative a very nice kill yourselves this is going to get women killed

[bluu-spectre]

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#im so fucking tired of this goddamn country #with everything happening with trying to ban abortions and birth control bc our goverment killed all of us by covid #and now realized their worker bees are dying off #my state is also trying to ban having roommates when rent is the highest its ever been #whats fucking next??? getting fined or jailed if you dont have at least one child????? #everyone living in america who isnt rich is fucking doomed #i swear to god every day i wake up i find the government trying to take away more of our rights #im so fucking tired

[millionmovieproject]

In this episode, Jared (a real-life Arizonian) and I discuss the reinstating of a Civil War era abortion ban & how it's impacting local office campaigns, an update on the growing conflict between Iran & Israel, & some historical context from WWI & WWII.

#arizona #arizona abortion ban #wwi #wwii #wwiii #iran #israel #history #fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union #social contract #rbn #revolutionary blackout network #indie news #indie journalism #independent journalism #independent news #politics #us politics #international politics #freedom for gaza #free palestine #justice for palestine #palestinian genocide #israeli occupation #war crimes