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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,697 posts)
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 08:59 PM Aug 2022

Most abortions are done at home. Antiabortion groups are taking aim.

Two top antiabortion groups have crafted and successfully lobbied for state legislation to ban or further restrict the predominant way pregnancies are ended in the United States — via drugs taken at home, often facilitated by a network of abortion rights groups.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 14 states now ban or partially ban the use of those drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, which are used in more than half of all abortions.

But the drugs remain widely available, with multiple groups working to help provide them even to women in states with abortion bans. Students for Life of America and National Right to Life Committee, which have played leading roles in crafting antiabortion laws, hope to change that with new legislation.

The groups are pursuing a variety of tactics, from bills that would ban the abortion-inducing drugs altogether to others that would allow family members to sue medication providers or attempt to shut down the nonprofit groups that help women obtain and safely use the drugs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/medicated-abortions-drugs-students-for-life/

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Most abortions are done at home. Antiabortion groups are taking aim. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 OP
That lobby money must be sweet EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #1
F*ck them. Women will choose. Internet will outsmart Demovictory9 Aug 2022 #2
Kinda figured there was as gonna be "undergrounds " Deuxcents Aug 2022 #3
The black market is alive and well!!! Fucken minority politics pushing their RKP5637 Aug 2022 #4
People deal drugs, meth, cocaine, heroin etc Phoenix61 Aug 2022 #5

EnergizedLib

(3,034 posts)
1. That lobby money must be sweet
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 09:03 PM
Aug 2022

Listening to special interests, not constituents.

I have yet to see any majority come out and say SCOTUS was correct or abortion should be banned. I have yet to see a majority oppose Roe.

Deuxcents

(26,912 posts)
3. Kinda figured there was as gonna be "undergrounds "
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 09:08 PM
Aug 2022

I would have to think plenty of them. The challenge will be how to communicate as they’re combing thru FB n other sites. These people would never put up w/ having what they need taken away but b/c they don’t “believe “ in abortive care, no one can have it.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
4. The black market is alive and well!!! Fucken minority politics pushing their
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 09:16 PM
Aug 2022

will on the majorities. Fuck them and this wretched thing called a supreme court. There is no honor in being on SCOTUS for the most part, a number of them are demented political hacks. Fairness and equality, what a joke in today's USA.

Phoenix61

(18,828 posts)
5. People deal drugs, meth, cocaine, heroin etc
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 11:40 PM
Aug 2022

and none of that happens over social media. There will be people in communities that are sources for the medications that women need. It will be word of mouth. Disgusting that it has come to that.

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