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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums67 abortions in 17 hours: Inside a Texas clinic's race to beat new six-week abortion ban
https://19thnews.org/2021/09/abortion-texas-whole-womans-clinic/Sadler, the director of clinical services, and her colleagues did the math. They needed to perform eight abortions an hour with only one doctor on duty, an octogenarian who had been working since 7 a.m. It felt impossible.
Outside, chants came in through a bullhorn, protesters shouting prayer verses and arguing the clinic was too full. Already the police had been called. The fire marshal would come twice over capacity issues inside the clinic. Employees could see protesters through their security cameras and through windows of the small brick building.
They are watching us, Sadler thought, and theyre winning.
There are people today who had appointments or are learning that they can't get the abortion care they want because of this law. They'll have to travel or risk getting abortion pills some other way. You can help right now by supporting an abortion fund:
In Texas:
linktr.ee/teafund
lilithfund.org
fundtexaschoice.org
bucklebunnies.org
linktr.ee/AfiyaCenter
linktr.ee/FronteraFundRGV
clinicaccess.org
linktr.ee/WestFundTx
Arkansas:
https://www.arabortionsupport.org/donate
Louisiana:
https://www.neworleansabortionfund.org/donate
New Mexico:
https://nmrcrc.org/donate
http://mariposafund.org/donation/
linktr.ee/WestFundTx
Oklahoma:
https://www.roefund.org/donate
Lovie777
(11,992 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)There's always an opportunity for money to be made & every sleazy greasy fker out there'll be jumpin in the compassionate 'We're here for you' con game.
Lindell will be in the grift.
Thanks for the links. If I donate to anyone it'll be these services & ACLU
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Our mothers, grandmothers before that.
Do not take your rights for granted.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,153 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)My grandkids are almost women.
Older women might have the money to go to another state or get a D and C.
My mother got a D and C. My aunt told me this.
Drs got a lot of money doing this.
Young women will bare the worst of it.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,153 posts)not just women who get abortions. Men do too.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)No man has died from a illegal abortion.
He can walk away.
The woman cannot.
Sorry I went thru the bad old days.
I still think about the two girls who died in high school.
They would be my age now.
The fear teenage girls lived thru if their periods were late.
No.
It is not the same.
Boys had the draft and and girls had illegal abortions.
I am going to talk to my 12 year old granddaughter
Any time now she will start her periods.
It is not a talk I ever wanted to have.
But she needs to know.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,153 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)I understand where you are coming from.
But living the those bad old days were hard.
Damn, didn't have to happen.
slightlv
(2,637 posts)in that peri-menopause phase of life. My own sister was one of those "oops"...!
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,153 posts)get abortions as well. But yes, periomenopause is rife with danger!
lindysalsagal
(20,445 posts)Like my mother's. She nearly died, but a local doc prescribed antibiotics, risking his career. This. Is. Real.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)She had four already, and I was a surprise.
My Aunt knew a Dr. who performed D and C's.
My my mother got one.
That happened a lot.
If you had the money and connections.
My aunt paid for it.