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Today it was mentioned that there are women in red states who are finding out about the abortion bans in their state when they try to book an abortion appointment, and there are women in states like New York who think that abortion has already been banned in their own state.
By the time GE voting begins next year, every voter in America needs to be 100% educated on the "who, what, when, where and why" with regard to abortion in this country.
The New York example makes it clear that it's not enough to quietly protect abortion rights. We have to be vocal about it, even in blue states: WE, DEMOCRATS, are protecting the right to choose. REPUBLICANS are taking that right away.
Voters also need to understand how the abortion bans affect ALL pregnant women who might experience life threatening complications or a miscarriage.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)My favored way to say it is that women are being reduced to second class citizen status, because a bunch of white men who aren't licensed to practice medicine have decided women can't make their own health care decisions.
I don't recall asking them to do that. In fact . . .
ecstatic
(32,653 posts)I think I'm going to call it a night and watch a Samuel Jackson movie I haven't seen before. I'll rejoin the fight tomorrow!
Bristlecone
(10,117 posts)H2O Man
(73,513 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)"spontaneous abortions". He chewed me out for having abortions. A DOCTOR did not understand the medical term for miscarriage. I have a uterus that caused the miscarriages. The doctor who told me I was pregnant told me right there and then that I would miscarry. I lost 2 pregnancies and they watched me closely on a third because of that condition. Men making rules about abortion, do not know any of the science involved in miscarriage or pregnancy.
pazzyanne
(6,544 posts)If you don't own the "plumbing" you don't get to make decisions about it!