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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:01 PM Apr 2021

Some GOP-led states target abortions done through medication

About 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication — rather than surgery — and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abortion rights advocates say the pandemic has demonstrated the value of medical care provided virtually, including the privacy and convenience of abortions taking place in a woman's home, instead of a clinic. Abortion opponents, worried the method will become increasingly prevalent, are pushing legislation in several Republican-led states to restrict it and in some cases, ban providers from prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine.

Ohio enacted a ban this year, proposing felony charges for doctors who violate it. The law was set to take effect next week, but a judge has temporarily blocked it in response to a Planned Parenthood lawsuit.

In Montana, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte is expected to sign a ban on telemedicine abortions. The measure’s sponsor, Rep. Sharon Greef, has called medication abortions “the Wild West of the abortion industry” and says the drugs should be taken under close supervision of medical professionals, “not as part of a do-it-yourself abortion far from a clinic or hospital.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/some-gop-led-states-target-abortions-done-through-medication/ar-BB1fx8t8

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Some GOP-led states target abortions done through medication (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
So sick of this shit. Diamond_Dog Apr 2021 #1
Another state being fully... 2naSalit Apr 2021 #2
The fucking republicans and their so-called "pro-life" stance! They lie. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2021 #3
They can be smuggled into these states. roamer65 Apr 2021 #4
Bet they allow viagra Rx by telemedicine Claire Oh Nette Apr 2021 #5
OK . . . . and since you can ALSO induce abortion via cinnamon, European Pennyroyal, and/or no_hypocrisy Apr 2021 #6
Telemedicine provides needed privacy DBoon Apr 2021 #7
Ok republican men... you want to control a woman's body Sugarmaggie Apr 2021 #8
reproductive rights....... gun control IcyPeas Apr 2021 #9

2naSalit

(86,515 posts)
2. Another state being fully...
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:06 PM
Apr 2021

trunpified. Like Matt Gaetz, Gianforte is a wealthy asshole who wants to control people's lives at the micromanagement level.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,580 posts)
3. The fucking republicans and their so-called "pro-life" stance! They lie.
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:11 PM
Apr 2021

They don't much like women, except in bed and in the kitchen. They know we're smart, and they're afraid of that.

They take this stance because they want to control us. And that's the only reason.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
4. They can be smuggled into these states.
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 02:15 PM
Apr 2021

In fact, if they ban these drugs I highly recommend smuggling them in.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
5. Bet they allow viagra Rx by telemedicine
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 03:06 PM
Apr 2021

It's no one's fucking business.
Women miscarry. Not all implantations make it to term.

We don't vote on anything else, just women's hoo-hoos.

This has to stop. Women have always had abortions. Women have not always had access to safe abortions. The GOP Christo fascists want more dead women, not more live births. Don't kid yourself.

no_hypocrisy

(46,067 posts)
6. OK . . . . and since you can ALSO induce abortion via cinnamon, European Pennyroyal, and/or
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 03:15 PM
Apr 2021

Vitamin C, will they also be banned?

DBoon

(22,354 posts)
7. Telemedicine provides needed privacy
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 03:20 PM
Apr 2021

You require a woman to purchase these medications from a local pharmacy, the entire town will soon know she terminated a pregnancy.

HIPAA be damned, people gossip.

Sugarmaggie

(110 posts)
8. Ok republican men... you want to control a woman's body
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 03:45 PM
Apr 2021

then give me the right to chop off your testicles. No, then shut the f up!

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