Hundreds of thousands of Texas women attempted self-induced abortion – study

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Between 100,000 and 240,000 women in Texas aged 18 to 49 have tried to induce an abortion at home, according to a new study released on Tuesday.

In the first study of its kind, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP), run by the University of Texas, attempted to show the prevalence of self-induced abortions in the state in the wake of legislators’ attempts to limit women’s access to abortions. Last week the supreme court agreed to hear a challenge to one of Texas’s most stringent abortion laws, known as HB2, which has led to the closure of more than half the state’s clinics.

Presented alongside the TxPEP data were interviews with 18 women who had tried to end their pregnancies at home – with varying degrees of success and differing medical consequences – in the past five years. The women were interviewed between October 2014 and October 2015.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/texas-women-self-induced-abortions-study

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1. Texas TRAP laws are working and this is sad

Texas has made getting a safe legal abortion difficult or impossible and the result is self-induced abortions