“Pregnant, And No Civil Rights”: Criminalizing Miscarriages -The Toast

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You may have already read this over the weekend. Read it again! Perhaps print out several copies of it and staple it to the inside of the jacket of the men in your life. Laminate it on your heart, whatever.

Anti-abortion measures pose a risk to all pregnant women, including those who want to be pregnant.

Such laws are increasingly being used as the basis for arresting women who have no intention of ending a pregnancy and for preventing women from making their own decisions about how they will give birth.

How does this play out? Based on the belief that he had an obligation to give a fetus a chance for life, a judge in Washington, D.C., ordered a critically ill 27-year-old woman who was 26 weeks pregnant to undergo a cesarean section, which he understood might kill her. Neither the woman nor her baby survived.

Here are a few places you can donate to in order to support abortion access in the United States. If you know of any others that you think merit attention, feel free to post links in the comments. If you can’t afford to make a donation, consider becoming a clinic escort.

Also, screaming into a pillow sometimes help, when all else fails.

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