#youknowme - women mobilize against U.S. abortion crackdown

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On social media, hundreds of ordinary Americans answered a call by talk show host Busy Philipps to share stories and “end the shame”. Philipps launched the hashtag #youknowme aimed at showing how common it is for women to end their pregnancies.

“1 in 4 women have had an abortion. Many people think they don’t know someone who has, but #youknowme,” the 39-year-old wrote in a post on Twitter.

One day after its launch, nearly 50,000 people had liked or shared the post and almost 2,000 users had posted responses, including deeply personal accounts of their own abortions. - PoliticusUSA

Good! Fight back!

[BigmanPigman]

1. 25% of women have had abortions?

I'd like to know more info from research about the overall US population.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The Guttmacher Institute is a great place for abortion data in the U.S. And according to them,

the rate is about one in four. https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2017/abortion-common-experience-us-women-despite-dramatic-declines-rates

Nearly one in four women in the United States (23.7%) will have an abortion by age 45, according to a new analysis by Guttmacher Institute researchers Rachel Jones and Jenna Jerman, just published in the American Journal of Public Health. By age 20, 4.6% of women will have had an abortion, and 19% will have done so by age 30.

“Despite recent declines in abortion, it is still a common procedure, and nearly one in four U.S. women will have an abortion in her lifetime,” says Rachel Jones, lead author of the analysis.

Between 2008 and 2014, the overall U.S. abortion rate declined by 25%, from 19.4 to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44. Key data points that may help explain this decline, including trends in unintended pregnancy, are not yet available for this time period. However, the available information suggests that improvements in contraceptive use—particularly among women aged 20–24, who account for one-third of unintended pregnancies in the United States—were an important driver behind the decline. Abortion rates declined among all demographic groups from 2008–2014, but the declines varied widely by group.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Thank you!

There are basically 300 million US citizens so 50% (150,000) are women. 25% of that amount had an abortion...over 37 million have had on, 1/8 of our population. That is a hell of a lot! And consider that the actual number of abortions performed is even higher since some people have had more than one.

You would think that that number would scare GOP candidates up for reelection. The number of supporters in red states is largely anti-abortion, but some are pro-choice and this issue could turn them away from voting for an anti-choice candidate.