#abortion facts

[thepro-lifemovement]

Physical Risks

Chemical abortion has a complication rate four times that of surgical abortion, and as many as one out of five women will suffer a complication.[1][2]

Three to seven out of every hundred women who choose chemical abortion early in pregnancy will need follow-up care to finish the abortion, with as many as 7-10% needing follow-up care for chemical abortions in the first trimester after 63 days of pregnancy and up to 39% requiring surgery if accidentally taken in second trimester.[3][4][5]

As many as 15% of women will experience hemorrhage, and 2% will have an infection. The risk of incomplete abortion and infection increases with increasing gestational age.[1][5]

Chemical abortion drugs are more likely to send women to the emergency room: the rate of chemical abortion-related emergency room visits increased over 500% between 2002-2015.[6]

Chemical abortions are over 50% more likely than surgical abortions to result in an ER visit within 30 days affecting one in twenty women.[6]

Mifepristone cannot treat an ectopic pregnancy and can mask the symptoms of tubal rupture, putting women at risk of severe bleeding and death. Approximately 2% of all pregnancies are ectopic.[7]

If an Rh-negative woman is not administered Rhogam if indicated at the time of her chemical abortion, she could experience isoimmunization which would cause serious risks to future pregnancies.[8]

Some abortion advocates encourage women to lie to their doctors if they need urgent care and say they are having a miscarriage. However, if a chemical abortion is miscoded as a miscarriage in the ER (which occurred 60% of the time in one study), the woman is at significantly greater risk of needing multiple hospitalizations and follow-up surgery.[9]

Social and Emotional Risks

With no medical oversight, abortion pills can fall into the hands of traffickers and abusive partners. Already, there are accounts of women being given abortion pills without their knowledge and against their will. The risk of forced abortions will increase if the pills are available online without an in-person visit with the woman’s doctor.[10]

The risks of chemical abortions aren’t just physical: women have described that their chemical abortion experiences left them feeling unprepared, silenced, regretful, or left with no other choice.[11]

[yardfile]

The anti choice crowd is really out here telling on their lack of empathy for women and their children who are already here 😭

So why do mothers support abortions?

Over half the women who get abortions in the US have had a child already.

75% of abortion getters are low-income or living below the poverty line. The social support for young families in the US is notoriously terrible.

Given this, it’s unsurprising that denying abortion can lead to worse outcomes for the women and the children these women already have:

Additionally, some moms have medical experiences during their wanted pregnancies that open their eyes to the harm that abortion restrictions can cause. Some moms need abortion care to not die and continue to be there for their children who have already been born, and legal exceptions to save the life of the mother still leave women at risk in practice:

Might also be worth noting that quickening (when mothers can feel the fetus’s movements) happens at around an average of 18 weeks and in 2020, and 93% of abortions occurred before 13 weeks of gestation (CDC). Most Americans do not take absolutist views on abortion and 56% do factor gestation time into their support for legal abortion. Also interesting that of the people who believe life begins at conception, one in three still support abortion rights (source):

antichoice tumblr crowd disclaimer: unless you are lawmakers, it’s not a good use of time to do debate club with you. if ur Christian, pls squabble with the 54% of people getting abortions who are also Christian instead. and/or just block me :)

[contemplatingoutlander]

With the conservative Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, it might be helpful to understand why this is such a big deal--especially to those of us old enough to remember the bad old days before women had reproductive rights.

Here are some key passages from this summary by Amnesty International:

Laws Don’t Stop Women From Having Abortions

Worldwide, an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies end in an abortion every year. [...] And regardless of whether abortion is legal or not, people still require and regularly access abortion services. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a US-based reproductive health non-profit, the abortion rate is 37 per 1,000 people in countries that prohibit abortion altogether or allow it only in instances to save a woman’s life, and 34 per 1,000 people in countries that broadly allow for abortion, a difference that is not statistically significant. [emphasis added]

Where Abortion Is Illegal, it Is Unsafe

Preventing women and girls from accessing an abortion does not mean they stop needing one.... it only forces people to seek out unsafe abortions.

Unsafe abortions are defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as “a procedure for terminating an unintended pregnancy carried out either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment that does not confirm to minimal medical standards, or both.”

They estimate that 25 million unsafe abortions take place each year, the vast majority of them in developing countries.

In contrast to a legal abortion that is carried out by a trained medical provider, unsafe abortions can have fatal consequences. So much so that unsafe abortions are the third leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide and lead to an additional five million largely preventable disabilities, according to the WHO. [emphasis added]

Access to Contraception and Sex Education Lower Abortion Rates

Evidence shows that abortion rates are higher in countries where there is limited access to contraception. Abortion rates are lower where people, including adolescents have information about and can access modern contraceptive methods and where comprehensive sexuality education is available and there is access to safe and legal abortion on broad grounds. [emphasis added]

There is much more in this article, which is well worth reading.

[makavelisixx]

[madfoolish]

Pro-Supernatural-Life 😈👹🧞‍♀️

[sentinelleblr]

"If the right to an abortion does get overturned, Aid Access staff say they feel confident their services could continue, in the same way they’ve been able to operate in red states that have barred other abortion groups.

So what’s the catch?

For now, the biggest one may be the big tech platforms. Aid Access needs to spread awareness about its services, and quickly. The pills, when shipped from overseas, can take two to three weeks to arrive, and Aid Access prescribes the two medications up to the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. But because it operates outside the formal US health care system, Aid Access says it has been penalized by search engines and social media giants that have tried to tackle the spread of Covid-19 misinformation."

[abortion-pill-instructions]

Know Abortion facts

In order to educate on evidence-based and accurate abortion information, this article will discuss four important abortion facts that you should know. Read this article for more information.

[lover-of-mine]

Buddie Countdown to Season 7:

16 days.

[mental-mona]

These statistics are at least 10 years old, but the point stands.

[thepro-lifemovement]

A groundbreaking national study published in November 2021 by CLI scholars found that the rate of abortion pill-related emergency room visits increased over 500 percent from 2002 through 2015 (the most recent data available).

A follow-up study this year found that if a woman’s abortion pill-related complications are miscoded by emergency room personnel as a natural miscarriage, she is:

Twice as likely to be admitted for surgery for retained products of conception; and

At significantly greater risk of multiple hospital admissions for treatment of the same complication.

Major media outlets, including New York magazine and Daily Kos, have recently published pro-abortion articles encouraging women to “avoid mentioning abortion, and the pills, entirely” should they go to the emergency room due to complications.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology, the CLI studies are the first to utilize Medicaid claims data to conduct a 17-year longitudinal analysis of 423,000 confirmed abortions and 121,283 confirmed subsequent visits to an emergency room in the 17 states which use state taxpayer funds to pay for abortion.

Dr. James Studnicki, CLI vice president of data analytics and lead author of the emergency room studies, said:

“This real-world data, based on actual Medicaid claims rather than a sampled survey population, should be a wake-up call to elected leaders, public health officials, and the medical community in New York.  The safety of the abortion pill is greatly exaggerated, a deception made possible by the FDA’s decision to stop collecting data on most abortion pill complications back in 2016.  Hemorrhage, emergency surgery, near death experience?  The FDA doesn’t collect that data, which leaves public health officials in the dark.   “Women are far more likely to visit the emergency room following a chemical rather than surgical abortion.  The rate of these emergency room visits is growing remarkably fast.  And now New York allows these pills to be mailed to women without even consulting with a physician?  This represents a serious public health threat.”

[crownquill]

I'd like to remind everyone that seeing such a radical push towards the right and towards facism is a sign of fear. 60% of the US wants abortion rights, many Russians don't want war with Ukraine, I'd like to think all people in the UK want to be able to critique their government. We have the numbers on our side and the next generation is much more progressive and the people in power know this but they're hoping we tear each other apart before we see this. We're going in the right direction, the government just doesn't reflect this and if anything is trying to combat it.

[trlvsn]

what really kills me about ace attorney is the time. the length. the lasting effects of it all. seven years of disbarment. fifteen years of believing you killed your father. how long was simon imprisoned? how long did lana skye have to live in fear and obedience? how long was diego armando in a coma? we remember the numbers, but are we as aware as they are of how much that time has blended into their identities, how it's now at their cores, the most horrible parts of their lives being so big and important, not just something that can be let go of and erased. they all fucking came back wrong and they will never be the same but the game goes on and they live to the best extent of what they can be now. ace attorney reminds me to say "it is what it is" more and i think that's beautiful

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's a fact that Dany's story is riddled with violence against women of color and that she's the perpetrator in several cases, so mentioning her race is actually necessary (Sansa being white has no bearing on her story because again, she never hurt or killed any woc). Besides burning Mirri, r*ping Irri and torturing the wineseller's daughter, she also slaps Eroeh in the face. She looted one city, destroyed another to gain an army of slaves, took over another one for a trial run at ruling and plans to abandon it to invade and destroy a continent that she (and the thousands of warlords she's bringing with her) has never been to to demand fealty from people who don't want her as their queen. Why don't you at least acknowledge that Dany is written as a villain and that your hatred of Sansa is, by comparison, irrational?

It's ironic that the biggest criticism of how George writes characters of color is that he uses them in service of white characters' arcs and that's exactly what you've decided to do in my inbox. Nothing about liking these characters, wanting to see more of their stories, or wanting better for them. Nothing about wanting to start a conversation about the racism in George's writing. Nope. Just you using these characters of color and their suffering, which you supposedly care about, as props because you feel a "pure", white character is being unfairly hated. I have to laugh. The only "hate" I've given to Sansa is disliking her annoying stans and pointing out how she's written in the books but apparently, that's enough to have you clutching your pearls.

And the thing about racism is that, for Dany to be capable of being racist, it would mean that race HAS to be a factor in their society. That would mean that Sansa, as a white woman, would subsequently benefit from her white identity. Which is why I found that so funny from the first ask you sent. You can't just decide that race is only a factor in a single character's story. I get it though, you haven't actually thought any of this through because your only motivation is to put down Dany and prop up Sansa. This is how I know you don't care at all about racism and you're just copying talking points you've heard instead of thinking for yourself.

[kweza]

it's not complicated. when you're pregnant, it's not a soon-to-be baby and you're not a soon-to-be mother. both have already occurred. you're a mother with a baby in your womb. that's it.