Most Americans, including those enacting 6-week #abortionbans, don’t actually understand how the timing or dating of pregnancy works. Many women don't know yet they are pregnant at 6 weeks.
Scholars explain how research on what Americans understand about #abortion raises “serious questions about whether Americans without medical training – much like those in our state legislatures – have the necessary knowledge needed to regulate abortion access.”
“This is a fight for freedom, the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body & not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do,” the VP said.
“& it happened just as Donald #Trump intended. Now, present day because of Donald Trump, more than 20 states have #AbortionBans, more than 20 #TrumpAbortionBans. & today, this very day at the stroke of midnight, another Trump #AbortionBan went into effect here in #Florida. As of this morning, 4 million #women in this state woke up w/fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. This is the new reality under a Trump #abortion ban.”
What emerged in 2 interviews w/ #Trump, & conversations w/more than a dozen of his closest advisers & confidants,were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape #America & its role in the world. To carry out a #deportation operation designed to remove >11M people from the country…he would be willing to build migrant detention camps [#ConcentrationCamps] & deploy the #US#military…
#Trump would let red states monitor #women’s #pregnancies & prosecute those who violate #AbortionBans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by #Congress, acc/to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a US Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking w/a tradition of independent #law enforcement that dates from America’s founding.
It is truly fucked up how little we (but mostly the religious & conservative Right) care about women.
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Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined (and it's only a misdemeanor in a lot of places)
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pregnant and postpartum people in states with abortion restrictions had a 75 percent higher rate of homicide than those in states that protected abortion access
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there was a 98 percent increase in reports of reproductive coercion the year after Dobbs
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the reality is, coerced abortions are overall quite rare, and it’s far more common for abusers to forcibly get someone pregnant and keep someone pregnant as a way to keep them under their control
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In 2022, American women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men (and had shitty parental leave, and held fewer executive positions)
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78.2% of all sexual harassment charges in the workplace are filed by women.
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So women have fewer rights than men, are mostly victimized by men, get worse compensation than men, and have to put up with more hostile work environments than men.
Aaand I'll wrap up my rant here for now.
Also, trans women are women—so this same BS applies on top of all the BS they get for being trans.
Sorry for the US bias—it's what I'm most familiar with and many of the English studies are from here.
@alice#abortionbans is state violence and male violence against women. It helps rape do it's work after the rape. It helps men maintain wealth by preventing women from education, safe homes, etc. The state knows exactly what its doing.
With the #Florida Supreme Court’s decision Mon night upholding an existing #15wkAbortionBan & allowing a strict new #6wkAbortionBan to take effect in 30 days, the court has cut off nearly ALL #abortion access across the #South, where ALL other states have either implemented similar #AbortionBans or #outlawed abortion entirely since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade.
The FL justices issued a separate ruling Mon that greenlighted an initiative to put abortion on the #ballot in Nov.