Category Archives: Health

This was obviously going to happen…

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Abortion bans stop women from getting essential, life-saving healthcare. State abortion bans are preventing cancer patients from getting chemotherapy Affidavits in Ohio show people had to leave the state for abortions before they could get cancer treatment. It’s an issue across the country. …In at least two cases, cancer patients have been blocked from receiving treatment until their pregnancies were terminated — and getting an abortion required them to leave the state. The cases underscore how abortion bans — even those with exceptions to save the life of the pregnant person — have upended patients’ lives and limited doctors’ abilities … Continue reading →

Medication abortion – will we lose that too?

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We certainly will if the antiabortion groups get their way. They are working now on legislation to ban medication abortions, even if the pills come from a state where abortion is legal. (gift link, should get you past the paywall) Most abortions are done at home. Antiabortion groups are taking aim. Two top antiabortion groups have crafted and successfully lobbied for state legislation to ban or further restrict the predominant way pregnancies are ended in the United States — via drugs taken at home, often facilitated by a network of abortion rights groups…. The groups are pursuing a variety of … Continue reading →

This energy is what we need…

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…to win in the mid-terms. These organizers in Kansas walked door-to-door, day after day, getting out the vote to defeat Kansas’s abominable abortion law. They raised tons of money to support the effort. They coordinated with Indivisible and never gave up. Every one of us has to match their heart and their efforts to win this fall. This is an interview with community organizer Yazmin Bruno-Valdez, and with Olivia Julianna of Gen-Z for Change. You may have heard of Olivia. She was attacked by Matt Gaetz, body-shamed publicly, and she used that attention to raise more than two million dollars … Continue reading →

Kansas!

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The first vote in the post-Dobbs era has ended, and Kansas, considered a very red state these days, has voted to keep abortion legal in the state. (gift link, no paywall) This is an enormous victory for women, and for freedom everywhere. That the vote was not even close should be somewhat reassuring, but there is still a very long road ahead to the mid-terms. Let’s not get complacent. Remember: The people who will put themselves in charge of our bodies to demand our reproductive labor, will put themselves in charge of our bodies to demand every other kind of … Continue reading →

Nature is savage

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More states are arguing about anti-abortion legislation this week. Know what’s happening in your state, and tell your legislators to protect reproductive choices. I can't overstate just how horrible the past few weeks have been. Pregnant women have been refused treatment, put in the ICU, put on breathing machines, forced into unnecessarily childbirth only to watch a wanted baby die, hemorrhaged, lost their uteruses.https://t.co/2xxnbqiAne — Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) July 20, 2022 Mother Nature's story of reproduction is bloody, messy, savage. Most fertilized eggs never become babies (if God knits you in the womb, he kills most of his creations). The … Continue reading →

More about that boat

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Slate presents an interview with Amy Autry, who works with a nonprofit organization called PROWESS, which plans to provide surgical abortions in the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a project mentioned in this longer post. She’s got an interesting story to tell, so go read the whole thing! If You Can’t Get an Abortion on Land, Can You Get One on a Boat? A doctor explains her long-brewing plan to set up a floating clinic in the Gulf of Mexico. …Someday soon, they may not have to. To serve patients on the Gulf Coast who may be closer … Continue reading →

Abortion resources

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You might notice I’ve added a new page for abortion resources. So far I’ve only added the links I’d surfaced when Roe v. Wade was murdered. Over the next week or two I’ll add in a few lines about the various organizations, their services, note locations (particularly which orgs are outside the US). I intend to keep the info up to date and online indefinitely. If you know of orgs that aren’t included but should be, let me know. Meanwhile, the free states where abortion is still protected are ramping up services as they must now embrace an increased wave … Continue reading →