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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWelcome To The Post-Roe World
I don't think that last bit can be emphasized enough. The hypocrite motherfuckers who are taking away your right to an affordable, shame-free abortion will absolutely continue to have access to discrete abortions whenever it is socially convenient for them.
While the Supreme Court upholding the Fifth Circuit Courts decision to allow Texas to keep enforcing its unconstitutional abortions restrictions does not mean they will eventually not strike down the law, its also not a good sign. The reason district court judge initially put a block on enforcing the law is that its quite obviously an undue burden on abortion access, due to the fact that it closed down abortion services at a third of the clinics offering them. So they had to reject that argument. So Im worried. I wont lie.
Even if things go the pro-choice way in the end, this will strike a permanent blow to access, especially in rural areas. Some clinics, like Planned Parenthood, mostly do other stuff, so they will stay open to offer contraception and well woman services. However, some abortion clinics exist only as abortion clinicsthe demand is so high and supply is so lean elsewhere that they pretty much have to exist. So, those clinics that cant comply are closing and rural areas....
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I feel like a broken record, but this is a point I cannot hammer home hard enough: The difference between abortion and miscarriage is a social construct and not a biological reality. Which isnt to say it isnt real, but its nonetheless important to understand that what makes an abortion different from a miscarriage is what part of a womans body rejects the pregnancy, her conscious mind or her uterus itself. (To simplify things. Obviously, spontaneous abortion has a myriad of causes, most unknown.) What this means is that you cant tell if someone who presents to a doctor with symptoms of miscarriage had a hand in it. Theres no blood test you can take, and frankly, a lot of doctors would not want to. The first time abortion was criminalized, getting an illegal abortion meant having to have someone physically perform it. Now there are pills. Thats a game changer.
Of course, one thing that majorly sucks is that a lot of people want it to be just this way. A lot of people, even ones who claim to be pro-life, think of it this way: They dont really want you to never have your abortion, but they think you need to work harder for it. To quote Dr. Minto, Women are forced to crawl around like goddamn criminals, and thats roughly what many people think they should have to do in order to get an abortion. The idea that its a major hassle but that you get to have one anyway is the pointa sort of state-mandated penance and shaming period for you. This is the reality of how things play out. We know this because of how many anti-choice policies amount to telling women to work harder and endure more shaming: Ultrasounds, waiting periods, etc. And we know this because this is the logic underpinning clinic protest. They pretend its to talk women out of it, but its mostly to make sure women cant go in without assholes trying to shame them first.
And ultimately, this is about well-off people using poor women as objects to express their sexual shame. They believe sex is naughty, but they dont want to be the ones who are expected to suffer for that belief. Poor women are required to suffer and the rich hypocrites pat themselves on the back for their moral values while getting expensive and discreet abortions by traveling or having a private family doctor who doesnt advertise that service.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/20/welcome-to-the-post-roe-world/
Even if things go the pro-choice way in the end, this will strike a permanent blow to access, especially in rural areas. Some clinics, like Planned Parenthood, mostly do other stuff, so they will stay open to offer contraception and well woman services. However, some abortion clinics exist only as abortion clinicsthe demand is so high and supply is so lean elsewhere that they pretty much have to exist. So, those clinics that cant comply are closing and rural areas....
....
I feel like a broken record, but this is a point I cannot hammer home hard enough: The difference between abortion and miscarriage is a social construct and not a biological reality. Which isnt to say it isnt real, but its nonetheless important to understand that what makes an abortion different from a miscarriage is what part of a womans body rejects the pregnancy, her conscious mind or her uterus itself. (To simplify things. Obviously, spontaneous abortion has a myriad of causes, most unknown.) What this means is that you cant tell if someone who presents to a doctor with symptoms of miscarriage had a hand in it. Theres no blood test you can take, and frankly, a lot of doctors would not want to. The first time abortion was criminalized, getting an illegal abortion meant having to have someone physically perform it. Now there are pills. Thats a game changer.
Of course, one thing that majorly sucks is that a lot of people want it to be just this way. A lot of people, even ones who claim to be pro-life, think of it this way: They dont really want you to never have your abortion, but they think you need to work harder for it. To quote Dr. Minto, Women are forced to crawl around like goddamn criminals, and thats roughly what many people think they should have to do in order to get an abortion. The idea that its a major hassle but that you get to have one anyway is the pointa sort of state-mandated penance and shaming period for you. This is the reality of how things play out. We know this because of how many anti-choice policies amount to telling women to work harder and endure more shaming: Ultrasounds, waiting periods, etc. And we know this because this is the logic underpinning clinic protest. They pretend its to talk women out of it, but its mostly to make sure women cant go in without assholes trying to shame them first.
And ultimately, this is about well-off people using poor women as objects to express their sexual shame. They believe sex is naughty, but they dont want to be the ones who are expected to suffer for that belief. Poor women are required to suffer and the rich hypocrites pat themselves on the back for their moral values while getting expensive and discreet abortions by traveling or having a private family doctor who doesnt advertise that service.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/20/welcome-to-the-post-roe-world/
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Welcome To The Post-Roe World (Original Post)
phantom power
Nov 2013
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. Yep rich women will pay to go somewhere - Middle class women will put it on a credit card and go
somewhere - this is all about the poor women
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. And the middle class is getting smaller by the day