New website helps US women self-induce abortions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News


9 hours ago


An international advocacy group has launched a website in the US to help women self-induce abortions due to concerns about restrictive laws.

Women Help Women, a Netherlands-based group, wants to provide guidance for American women who may have obtained abortion pills illegally.

Abortion is legal in the US, but more recently several Republican states have passed stringent abortion laws.

Some US women have voiced concerns that their abortion rights could be revoked.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39749681

[tenorly]

1. Just like in medieval times, when women who were raped had to resort to drinking pennyroyal

The pain was excruciating, and indeed many died doing so - but it was a reliable abortefact as such things go.

And here we are, in 2017 America, having to discuss these things as current events. Beyond belief.

[notdarkyet]

2. I was just telling my girlfriend today about a women's group that was formed in the seventies of

Women who were midwives, herbalists and nurses who had a group that helped women that needed it. Abortion was legal in some states and not others. Rich girls could fly to ca where it was legal. Women have had knowledge for thousands of years for these procedures. Im happy there are networks across the globe carrying on this sacred tradition.

[Squinch]

8. I believe it was called "The Jane Collective."

[ProudLib72]

3. The first thing that popped into my mind when reading this

was Margaret Sanger fighting the Comstock Law of 1873. She got her info from a Dutch clinic, too. Seems like we've come full circle on this.

[not fooled]

4. Stories like this

are one reason, no doubt, that the dump admin is going after net neutrality. I expect the phony xtians to target sites such as this for censorship, if they get the chance.

After all, they think they have the right to do so because jeebus.

[J_William_Ryan]

5. This illustrates the idiocy of those hostile to the privacy rights of women.

For thousands of years before Roe women were having abortions.

In addition to being an un-Constitutional violation of a woman’s right to privacy, and a manifestation of government excess and overreach, it’s also pointless to ‘ban’ abortion – as women will continue to have abortions whether they are legal or not.

Seeking to place undue burdens on the right to privacy with regard to abortion is yet another example of the authoritarianism common to most on the right.

[Warpy]

6. Self administered RU-486 isn't the safest thing in the world

so I'd hope most women would travel to a clinic for medical help.

I fully understand why women in some states can't do that between squeal laws, waiting periods, and inability to travel hundreds of miles away, not to mention prices jacked up by ridiculous clinic regulations and tacked on procedures like unnecessary ultrasounds.

I'm glad they've opened this up to us. I have a sickening feeling we'll need it more and more.

[oldcynic]

14. RU-486 is safer than a wire coat hanger.

[Squinch]

7. This is so sad, but it really is needed. And to all those saying it isn't entirely safe, you are

correct. In fact it is quite dangerous.

But we are now in an age where for many women there are no safe alternatives and they have to weigh two bad options. For many, the dangerous self induced abortion will be the better of the two.

Many in our country harbor a barely concealed hatred for women. Many more than I ever dreamed possible.

It is heartbreaking.

[yallerdawg]

9. "About SASS: Self Managed Abortion; Safe and Supported"

Misoprostol alone, or in combination with mifepristone, is a safe and effective way to end a pregnancy in the first 12 weeks. It is approved by the World Health Organization as a safe abortion method when used by women themselves to 9 weeks and has been used successfully by millions of women* around the world, without a clinician.

https://consult.womenhelp.org/en/using-abortion-pills-for-safe-abortion-usa

[roamer65]

16. I would hand the pills out like candy worldwide.

Fastest way to population control. Let women fully decide if they want the fetus or not.

[CountAllVotes]

10. My girlfriend in high school got PG

She took two bottles of tylenol and almost died.

We need to keep abortion safe for all women. No woman should have to give birth to a child that she does not want. Period.

[hamsterjill]

11. Safe and legal.

I won't back down and I will always vote accordingly. No woman should have to die from what is a safe and usually very simple private medical procedure.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. And affordable.

Much RW legislation seems designed to pull funding from clinics, not to make abortion illegal. The well-to-do can always find a doctor, or make a quick trip to elsewhere (Paris, anyone?).

The legislation discriminates against non-affluent women.

[hamsterjill]

13. Yes!!!!

n/t

[roamer65]

15. The drug names Cytotec and Arthrotec may soon become household names.