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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly. Shit. This is the war on women.
We do not have large enough surveys to discern behavior in different states or to track how it has changed over time and in any case, people may not feel comfortable sharing the truth in a survey.
Google searches can help us understand whats really going on. They show a hidden demand for self-induced abortion reminiscent of the era before Roe v. Wade.
This demand is concentrated in areas where it is most difficult to get an abortion, and it has closely tracked the recent state-level crackdowns on abortion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/the-return-of-the-diy-abortion.html?ref=opinion
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Outlawing abortions hurts women. Women will always work to control their own bodies. Always. No matter the law.
progressoid
(49,964 posts)PatrickforO
(14,569 posts)Women to be subservient, barefoot, and pregnant.
Warpy
(111,235 posts)Men can't be expected to control themselves, ever.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)A holdover from the dominant religion's Bronze Age regional origins, to be blunt. Religiously-driven misogyny, and they want it to be institutionalized misogyny, as well.
Bucky
(53,986 posts)They whackjobs think of everything
rurallib
(62,406 posts)I have daughters of child bearing age. If needed they should be able to seek and receive any legal medical procedure at any hospital in the US at any time.
One of them lived in Mississippi at the time they were having a referendum to make abortion nearly impossible to get. Pregnancy could kill her and she lived in great fear of accidentally getting pregnant.
spanone
(135,816 posts)Sparky 1
(400 posts)Except we didn't have the Internet. Girls -- teenage girls afraid to tell their parents, and some of them rightly so -- died sometimes. A friend of mine drank a whole bottle of quinine and her ears rang for three days. She's lucky she didn't die. RvW saved a lot of lives.