Pregnant and desperate in post-Roe America

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/pregnant-post-roe-america-abortion/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/QDVtK

It’s a moment of panic that has played out again and again for people in more than a dozen states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

Once they find out they’re pregnant, there isn’t much time to act. The closest open abortion clinics that once offered next-day appointments are now often fully booked three, four, even five weeks in advance. Pills purchased online can take up to a month to arrive.

Every day, the fetus gets a little bigger — and the anxiety builds.

In polarized, post-Roe America, the experiences that draw widespread attention are often the most harrowing: a 10-year-old rape victim forced to leave her state to end her pregnancy, or a woman denied an abortion for a fetus without a skull.

Often lost in the discussion are the more routine stories. The mother of two who can’t afford a third child. The teenager who can’t tell her parents she’s pregnant. The 25-year-old who isn’t ready to be a mom.

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[CousinIT]

1. Wait...women & girls are "people"?

I think to the reproductive slavery promoters, they are not. They are incubators on legs.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

Who could have predicted this? Snort.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Oh my god, that final story. K&R.

[Irish_Dem]

4. This is how it used to be back in the day.

I tried to explain it, but was told to "get a grip."
People could not believe what I was saying.

Now we shall see first hand what life is like under a patriarchy which devalues women.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Every person who has a working system of female sex organs and is sexualy

Active needs to start an unwanted pregnancy piggy bank and double up on their birth control, if they can still get it.

Heaven help the people who are happily pregnant until something tragic happens to complicate their health and that of the fetus.

And I guess we need to start doubling down on self defense knowledge and start locking up as many creepy uncles, brothers, fathers, grandpaws, neighbors and randos we can to try and make pregnancy by rape and incest less likely but I'm not holding my breath for this.

Men need to be forced to be accountable for their pregnancies and I mean that they participate in creating. We need a law to that effect. And we need to fix whatever is wrong with the child support system in this country.

People will die. WTF is this world coming to?
I'll never understand it.

❤️

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes.

Unwanted pregnancies are a crisis now.

Wanted pregnancies with medical complications are a crisis now.

Women need to be prepared.

Yes men hare half the reproductive equation but totally off the hook.

I never thought I would see women's rights go back to the 19th century.

I understand it. Men are obviously very threatened by the progress women have made.
Time to end all of that, and get women back trapped in the home again.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. it is truly disheartening to witness the cruelty against women and they want more.

[Irish_Dem]

11. The cruelty shows the male rage and also it is by design.

Men are apparently outraged and furious that women have succeeded so well in a system designed by men for men.
And that women want to be treated with respect.

The cruelty is specifically used to terrorize a group into compliance and submission.
To stun the group, keep them off balance and docile.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. and take back the right to vote. They really hate that. Women are way more competent IMHO.

[Irish_Dem]

14. The US Supreme Court is using a 17th century legal view of women in their rulings.

Going back hundreds of years when women were basically only property with no rights at all.

Tells us the current GOP goals for women.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Unfathomable even 4 years ago; now completely a focus for the right wing scum.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Progress we took for granted is disappearing right in front of our eyes.

Heart breaking.

[LittleGirl]

8. Yup, great advice. nt

[Duppers]

19. "get a grip."?!! OMG.

I've experienced what it was like.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Those of us who lived it know what it is going to be like.

The younger folks cannot wrap their heads around it yet.

[Tickle]

9. time for people to work local politics

and start changing state laws on abortion. For now those states that don't allow abortion then girls/women must travel to other states. Hopefully there is some mechanism in place so the person wanting the abortion gets help in going to another state.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes, an alternative system where women can receive proper care.

A system is needed for women so they can receive reproductive and medical care.

We now live in a country where state governments order health care providers not to treat critically ill women.

[roamer65]

17. I wonder what would happen if legal states started airdropping abortion drugs.

Would it help?

[Irish_Dem]

21. Governors like DeSantis would shoot down the planes.

[roamer65]

22. Then we could bomb Florida!

[Irish_Dem]

23. US Civil War II

[roamer65]

18. This makes me proud of Michigan and to be a Michigander.

I am proud of what we did on November 8th.

It’s now a woman’s right to choose in our state…again.

December 23rd It becomes LAW.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. The Extreme Court is responsible for every evil resulting from their twisted ruling.

This is what happens when logic, law, precedent and the U.S. Constitution are ignored in order to force-feed an extremist ideology on the nation. There will be ripple effects throughout every aspect of society for years to come.

[Kath2]

25. Post-Roe America.

It is a dark and dangerous place for millions of women and girls.

The pro-choice side has saved more lives than “pro-life” ever will.

Damn them!