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(16,887 posts)niyad
(113,587 posts)Bettie
(16,129 posts)if it needs to be done, I'll be driving.
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)Solly Mack
(90,788 posts)even across state lines - for a long time now.
Among other things.
Call NARAL. Call Planned Parenthood. Several states have volunteer groups for drivers and hosts.
Donate money to groups that are already engaged in programs to help women get needed health services.
Start a program. Get volunteers to drive women and to house them when needed for overnight stays.
The networks already exist, they need to be expanded - they need volunteers.
niyad
(113,587 posts)Solly Mack
(90,788 posts)Donations work. They allow groups to cover the expenses - the appointment, the travel, food, everything.
Some people drive in groups - they drive so far and then another driver takes over. Women have been known to travel across country for help.
A lot of drivers who do the long hauls drive in pairs.
Most trips are 6 hours or less. One way.
Sometimes you have to stay overnight because of the stupid 24 hour wait and see bullshit. Or drive back and forth over again.
Childcare is also needed since women sometimes have to go to appointments with their kids.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Source: Mother Jones
Renata had come from Arizona to attend the weeklong training. She learned how, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, white male doctors consolidated their professional power in part by sidelining female and often nonwhite midwives and other community healers. She learned which drugs and herbs induce a miscarriage and where to buy the small, plastic, strawlike instrument that is inserted into the uterus and suctions out an unwanted pregnancy. If problems arise, what should one say to avoid scrutiny at the emergency room? In which states is self-induced abortion, and helping women self-induce, a crime?
On the second day, the group split into pairs, and in different rooms they practiced pelvic exams. Renata (whose name, along with those of other providers and clients in this story, has been changed) and her partner, propped up by pillows, tried not to pinch each other with the plastic speculum they were still learning to use. It was emotional, she remembers. Its a heavy topic, and youre working with each others bodies. The next day, a member of the group demonstrated on a woman having her period how a manual vacuum aspiration device, a handheld plastic syringe used by clinics for first-trimester abortions, could pull out the mensesor a pregnancy.
As long as women have had unwanted pregnancies, other women have helped them resolve the problem. After the mid-19th century, when abortion was outlawed, women either found a physician who did it on the sly or turned to traditional helpers, a practice that continued even after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. Today, as abortion rights are restricted at an unprecedented ratebetween 2011 and 2016, more than 160 clinics closedthis informal network of nonmedical providers is responsible for a small but significant number of abortions nationwide.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/02/inside-the-top-secret-abortion-underground/
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)I'm in NOVA with a guest bedroom.
mopinko
(70,258 posts)thank ja jane can now bring ru 486. just need to deal w the occasional complications.
plus modern technology. vacuum machines are a lot better than d&c's.
prolly still need safe places for that long process w the pills, but...
we can do this if we have to.
let's hope we dont.
Johnny2X2X
(19,137 posts)There is a false sense of security that if Roe v Wade is overturned, that it will go back to the states and since many of us live in blue states we will be safe. THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!
https://psmag.com/social-justice/what-will-happen-to-abortion-access-in-your-state-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned
Existing laws in your state will then be back to taking precedent. In many states it will be illegal immediately. States like MI, MO, OH, WI, NM, AZ, UT, KS, SD, IA, AL, WV, MA and KY have laws on the books making abortion illegal. New legislation will have to be written, debated and passed in these states for abortion to be made legal there. Many other states have no laws on the books so laws to protect abortion rights will have to be written and passed.
Several states have laws on the books that will make abortion permanently illegal there.
niyad
(113,587 posts)rights should NOT depend on WHICH state I inhabit, you fuckiing assholes"