The Cut: The Future of Abortions in America: an access map

[Bucky]

Once Roe falls, this is the likely picture of abortion access in the United States
(link to interactive map display: https://www.thecut.com/article/future-abortion-access-map.html )

The legal right to abortion is likely to disappear in half the country in a matter of weeks. Abortion itself, and the need for it, will not, and never has. The question is what it will cost medically, financially — and criminally.

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America has always had a tradition of informal information sharing about how to end a pregnancy. Its embers have been kept alive by a network of grassroots organizers who not only were expecting Roe to fall but have already been working under barriers that belie this supposedly constitutional right.

The only good news now is that, in most cases, an abortion outside the blessing of the law no longer requires begging at the feet of a doctor or the often brutal, sometimes ineffective measures women took on their own before Roe: the infamous coat hanger, the consumption of toxic substances, a stranger with faked credentials. Nor will it bifurcate quite as it did in the ’60s, when wealthy, connected white women flew to countries like Japan and Sweden for abortions performed by doctors, while Black and brown women died in special hospital wards set up for septic abortion attempts. Modern pharma and the old-fashioned USPS now enable an early pregnancy to end safely at home — that is, if you can evade surveillance and law enforcement, which have already criminalized people, mostly women of color, for their pregnancy outcomes, even where abortion is technically legal.

Read the full article at this link: https://www.thecut.com/article/future-abortion-access-map.html

[CTyankee]

1. Mercifully, my state of CT has a strong prochoice law and a state lege that is decent.

We will see, if not already, women from other states who can make it here to find abortion providers.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/connecticut-abortion-protection-law-out-of-state-lawsuits/index.html

[Bucky]

2. The next fight will be Missouri's new Fugitive Embryo Act

It's a violation of the 14th Amendment, but we can't exactly count on this particular Supreme Court to follow the Amendments they don't like.

There's already other states writing laws to prevent women from crossing state lines to get abortion services.

[CTyankee]

3. Well, how does anyone know that a particular woman has come to CT for an abortion?

[Bucky]

4. Texas has tried putting up bounties to motivate snoopers

They could criminalize anyone aiding crossing state lines with intent (as with the Mann Act), mandate the reporting of pregnancy tests by clinics, mandate the reporting of home pregnancy tests by pharmacies, authorize cyber snooping, mail snooping for those mailing abortion pills into anti-abortion states... This is why they'll start going after RU-86 type medications next, and birth control after that.

There's potentially a whole passel of Big Brother shit the wingnuts are willing to get into in their desperate attempts to control women. When you think you're acting in the name of the AllMonitor-in-the-Sky, no measure and no violation of privacy is out of the question.

read this: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/abortion-travel-bans-emerge-as-next-frontier-after-roes-end

[CTyankee]

5. I can think up a few good excuses: checking out Ivy League schools to apply to, visiting family,

going to a wedding or bar mitzvah, or christening.

[Bucky]

7. Yes, abortions absolutely will continue to happen. So will inventive roadblocking by anti-choicers

American citizens shouldn't have to concoct elaborate back stories for traveling state to state. You shouldn't have to lie to get basic health services. But the Republican party is clearly pointing the country in that direction. This is gonna end up with Texas Rangers and TBI agents staking out abortion clinics in Colorado and Maryland running facial recognition software to run against Texas and Tennessee State Bureaus of Fetal Protection databases on what women have missed their periods.

[Bettie]

6. Illinois is nicely placed to help

a whole lot of people in the surrounding states and no one needs an excuse to go to Chicago for a few days!

[Bucky]

8. You shouldn't have to lie to get basic health services.

This will quickly degenerate into a surveillance state nightmare.

[Bettie]

9. No, you shouldn't

but that's what it seems like is about to happen to a lot of women.

I'm beyond my reproductive years, but willing to take others on sightseeing tours to Illinois if they need a ride.

[lindysalsagal]

10. Great media interactive at the link

Thanks.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. There's a lot of misinformation in this article/s as well as information presented without context

that exposes people to legal risk without clearly helping them mitigate that risk. The whole issue is pretty crap.