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Home Abortions Rise After Texas Law Closes Clinics

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A Texas law aimed at restricting abortions, which took effect in 2013, has led to more women trying to end a pregnancy on their own, while the number of clinical procedures in the state has declined, according to a study released on Tuesday.

The study showed that poor women bear the brunt of the law.

"Poverty, limited resources, and local facility closures limited women's ability to obtain abortion care in a clinic setting and were key factors in deciding to attempt abortion self-induction," the Texas Policy Evaluation Project found.

The study estimated that between 100,000 and 240,000 women aged 18 to 49 in Texas have tried to self-induce abortion since the law went into effect, using such methods as herbs, teas and medications obtained in Mexico without prescription.
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Home Abortions Rise After Texas Law Closes Clinics - NBC News



Once again, no surprise here. Women *will* do what they have to do to abort if termination is what they want or feel is best.
 
What percentage of them got hurt in the process?
 
I don't know how you can form a conclusion based on a study of only 23 women.

Because I hadn't heard of the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, I went Googling. From the Project's website [all bolding mine]:

Between November 2013 and November 2014, we recruited women who sought abortion care at Texas clinics that were no longer providing services. Some participants had appointments scheduled at clinics that stopped offering care when the law went into effect; others called seeking care at clinics that had closed. Texas resident women seeking abortion in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were also recruited. Results: We conducted 23 in-depth interviews and performed a thematic analysis. As a result of clinic closures, women experienced confusion about where to go for abortion services, and most reported increased cost and travel time to obtain care. Having to travel farther for care also compromised their privacy. Eight women were delayed more than one week, two did not receive care until they were more than 12 weeks pregnant, and two did not obtain their desired abortion at all. Five women considered self-inducing the abortion, but none attempted this. UT College of Liberal Arts: TxPEP - Publications

The sole source of funding, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, has provided millions and millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood. Texas Policy Evaluation Project Forced to Disclose Funding Source for Discredited Attacks on Pro-Life Laws | TexasGOPVote
 
nota bene said:
I don't know how you can form a conclusion based on a study of only 23 women.

Because I hadn't heard of the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, I went Googling. From the Project's website [all bolding mine]:

Between November 2013 and November 2014, we recruited women who sought abortion care at Texas clinics that were no longer providing services. Some participants had appointments scheduled at clinics that stopped offering care when the law went into effect; others called seeking care at clinics that had closed. Texas resident women seeking abortion in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were also recruited. Results: We conducted 23 in-depth interviews and performed a thematic analysis. As a result of clinic closures, women experienced confusion about where to go for abortion services, and most reported increased cost and travel time to obtain care. Having to travel farther for care also compromised their privacy. Eight women were delayed more than one week, two did not receive care until they were more than 12 weeks pregnant, and two did not obtain their desired abortion at all. Five women considered self-inducing the abortion, but none attempted this. UT College of Liberal Arts: TxPEP - Publications

The sole source of funding, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, has provided millions and millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood. Texas Policy Evaluation Project Forced to Disclose Funding Source for Discredited Attacks on Pro-Life Laws | TexasGOPVote
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So?


Any proof that it isn't happening?
 
I think it's only in opposite world that you can prove a negative.
 
Anybody who didn't see this coming a mile away is either willfully ignorant or hateful of women's freedom to manage their own bodies.
 
nota bene said:
I think it's only in opposite world that you can prove a negative.
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You posted first, you threw out some diversion. So, tell me, is this true or not? Stand up for your post and produce some proof.
 
Henrin said:
What percentage of them got hurt in the process?
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The mere act of aborting is "hurting" them in the process. Go in the bathroom, stick a coathanger up your anus, and try to remove a gland or something. Tell us if you get hurt in the process.
 
From the Atlantic:


The figure was found by asking an online, representative sample of 779 women whether they themselves or whether their best friends had ever tried to self-induce an abortion. Of the Texas women surveyed, 1.7 percent said they had performed an abortion on themselves, but 4.1 percent of them said their best friend had or they suspected she had.

The most common method reported was by taking the drug Misoprostol, also known by the brand name Cytotec. Other reported methods included “herbs or homeopathic remedies, getting hit or punched in the abdomen, using alcohol or illicit drugs, or taking hormonal pills.”

The finding is important because the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole, that concerns abortion law in Texas. The court will decide the constitutionality of a 2013 law requiring the state’s abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers and for their doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

As a result, Texas now has just 17 abortion clinics, compared to 41 in 2012, and almost all the remaining clinics are in major cities.

The survey from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project found that self-induced abortion was more common among women who had trouble obtaining reproductive services. Women were more likely to report having tried it if they had experienced difficulty getting birth control or Pap smears or if they lived near the Mexico border. Not only are some border towns located far from abortion clinics, but Cytotec is more widely available in Mexico.

The survey authors say self-induced abortions may become more common if more abortion clinics close. “Given that the populations we found to be most familiar with abortion self-induction are among those that have been most directly affected by the closure of abortion clinics in the state,” they write, “we suspect that abortion self-induction will increase as clinic-based care becomes more difficult to access.”
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Texas Women Are Inducing Their Own Abortions - The Atlantic
 
"Boy, it sure would be a shame if those folks shooting up that place got hurt," thought no one ever.
 
JayDubya said:
"Boy, it sure would be a shame if those folks shooting up that place got hurt," thought no one ever.
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That is because intelligent people debating serious matters do not resort to idiotic comments to justify uneducated and ignorant positions.
 
Scrabaholic said:
Home Abortions Rise After Texas Law Closes Clinics - NBC News



Once again, no surprise here. Women *will* do what they have to do to abort if termination is what they want or feel is best.
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"The study estimated that between 100,000 and 240,000 women aged 18 to 49 in Texas have tried to self-induce abortion since the law went into effect, using such methods as herbs, teas and medications obtained in Mexico without prescription."

Libertarian, free-marketer's wet dream...innovation and entrepreneurial enterprise filling the void left by government.
 
JumpinJack said:
The mere act of aborting is "hurting" them in the process. Go in the bathroom, stick a coathanger up your anus, and try to remove a gland or something. Tell us if you get hurt in the process.
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Most women that induce their own abortions are not going to use coathangers.
 
Henrin said:
Most women that induce their own abortions are not going to use coathangers.
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Henrin, the expert on women's medical procedures, speaks.
 
GEIxBattleRifle said:
It's much more important to prove a positive claim.
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An important positive claim to prove, that is more relevant to current law and any possible changes, would be how we could treat the born and unborn equally under the law or even practically? (It uses 'personhood' to some extent, but pro-life people would just extend the legal definition to include the unborn.)

And if that's not possible, how do people justify treating the born (women in the case of abortion) as less equal? Or, how do people justify treating the unborn as less equal.

I have done the latter many times but never seen a pro-life person do so. Few, if any, even try and yet they stand by their claim that 'both are equal.' I dont get how you can make that statement and yet not be able to put a foundation of fact or law beneath it.
 
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