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Elections have consequences. Hopefully this issue will motivate many women in their reproductive years to vote. Because MAGAs want to go back to a time (1950s) when they think America was great, which was, among other things, before Roe vs Wade, when too many desperate women tried using coat hangers.

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The Hill:

“Significantly more women chose to end pregnancies themselves — using unsupervised and potentially dangerous at-home methods — in the year following the Supreme Court’s abolition of federal protections for abortion, a study has found….

…In a worrying trend, about three-quarters of women who tried to perform at-home abortions didn’t use the World Health Organization-recommended pills misoprostol or mifepristone.

Instead they opted for “ineffective” methods such as herbs, Plan B emergency contraception or punching themselves in the stomach, the study found….

…The finding comes amid a historic national crackdown on abortion. Since the Dobbs decision, 22 states have banned or significantly restricted the procedure, with 14 passing full bans….

…About a quarter turned to herbal remedies. About 30 percent turned to “physical methods” such as punching themselves in the stomach, lifting heavy objects or “inserting an object into the body.” And about a third used alcohol or other drugs or medications….”

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