Abortion Pills, Once a Workaround, Are Now a Target

[Demovictory9]

Abortion Pills, Once a Workaround, Are Now a Target
In advance of a Supreme Court decision, states are proposing new restrictions and heavier criminal penalties on medication abortion.

Last year, after Texas passed its strict abortion ban, surgical abortions in the state dropped by half. Many women found a workaround: pills. The week the law took effect, requests for medication abortion shot up to 138 a day from 11 a day at just one service that delivers the pills by mail.

Anti-abortion lawmakers in the state were already on it. That same week, they passed another law making it a felony to provide abortion pills through the mail and requiring doctors to comply with new testing and reporting procedures to prescribe them.

Medication abortion is the new front in the nation’s five-decade-long fight, as both sides anticipate that by summer the Supreme Court could overturn or pare back the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade.


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To anti-abortion activists, who believe ending a pregnancy is murder, the pills are a back door to be locked shut with new restrictions and heavier criminal penalties. In the first three months of this year, legislators proposed more than 100 restrictions on medication in 22 states.

States such as Missouri are attempting to reach beyond their borders to stop their residents from going elsewhere to get an abortion, by pill or by surgery. Connecticut and California, meanwhile, are rushing to protect their citizens who might be penalized for helping women in restrictive states obtain the medication. One pill manufacturer has sued to stop a Mississippi law that requires the pills to be picked up and swallowed in a doctor’s office.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/abortion-pills.html

[Meowmee]

1. Birth control is a target too

[Demovictory9]

2. comment following article: birth control, IVF and insurance coverage will be target

then they will register all pregnant women and arrest those without a baby in 9 months

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Not to forget banning the sales of OTC pregnancy tests to get around registration.

[Demovictory9]

6. I had wondered about pregnancy tests..they need women to not have ability to know they are pregnant

until past cutoffs

[Meowmee]

9. That too

There will be a black market for everything probably if it happens.

[leftieNanner]

4. Remember the Evangelical Asshole

Who worked for Border Control? He had a spreadsheet tracking migrant women's menstruation schedules. Sick.

He was the guy who blocked a pregnant teen from getting out of custody to get an abortion. She was finally able to get it, but geez!

[Demovictory9]

7. i remember...that was so sick

[Meowmee]

8. It wouldn't surprise me

I doubt it will fly in all states, but in some. Registering pregnant women will be challenged and maybe succeed in being stopped. If fascism takes over completely that is another story. Tg I am long past having to worry about it for myself. As usual the needy will suffer and the ok or well off will still get what they need.

[FalloutShelter]

5. There is no work around for

The loss of agency over your own bodies, ladies.
The right wants to push women back 60 years.
We can’t let them win

[mindem]

10. It's not just women

These right-wingers feel they have things staged to roll back everything. They are coming after health care, medicare, social security, wages, voting, and who knows what else. They are in the process of punishing any group of people with whom they don't agree. These are dangerous times.

[Demovictory9]

11. an orgy of backwardness

[FalloutShelter]

12. Oh 1000%

I was just responding to this particular issue. They are coming for ALL of our rights. No question.

[ForgedCrank]

13. In my opinion

the Republicans are going to sorely regret going down this road.
This matter right here could be the very thing that finally and permanently changes Texas to Blue.

[PortTack]

14. They can try to fling us backwards, and will have some success

BUT, women are resourceful. There will always be abortions, we need to push information out there that prevent pregnancy or end it..SAFELY.

There are many many herbs that either prevent or end pregnancy. The idiots can’t end all avenues. Not to say they won’t try

[keithbvadu2]

15. Doctors can prescribe for off-label uses.

Doctors can prescribe for off-label uses.

Off-label prescribing is when a physician gives you a drug that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved to treat a condition different than your condition. This practice is legal and common. In fact, one in five prescriptions written today are for off-label use.

Maybe like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=prescribe+medications+off-label

Just be sure to mention side effects.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Gynotician