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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMr. Evil
(2,872 posts)would call it women's reproductive healthcare instead of just abortion.
Wounded Bear
(58,848 posts)and we should not have been so scared to talk about it all these years while the RW fanatics kept wearing away on women's rights.
speak easy
(9,369 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,872 posts)women's reproductive healthcare encompasses so much more than just abortion. There's proper nutrition and vitamin deficiencies (usually needed for lower income women), placental abruptions (the reason my son was born 3½ months early in 1993), ectopic pregnancies, breech births, miscarriages, hormonal imbalances, postpartum depression and on and on with probably a thousand other potential needs that may need to be met and treated. And what about recent reports of women seeking treatment in emergency rooms only to be turned away. One miscarried in a waiting area restroom.
All I can imagine about being pregnant is that it is akin to navigating a minefield. My intent was to point out that women's reproductive healthcare involves so many more aspects of healthcare than just abortion. When the media just addresses this issue with 'abortion' some people on the fence about it may not think about what it actually entails and why.
Sky Jewels
(7,235 posts)And deservedly so.
BaronChocula
(1,669 posts)before they actually GAF.
Some of them will STILL split the ticket and some will still vote straight goober.
progressoid
(50,058 posts)AverageOldGuy
(1,584 posts). . . that Republicans are now coming after contraception -- they want to ban teaching about contraception, providing contraceptive devices or medication, or using contraceptive devices or medication. The same people who overturned Roe v. Wade are now coming after your birth control pills.
This is NOT A JOKE.
For most of our history, contraception was whispered about. In most states, it was illegal to manufacture, sell, use, or teach about contraceptive devices. Under the Connecticut Comstock Act of 1873 it was illegal to use "any drug, medicinal article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception".
In 1961 Estelle Griswold and Dr. Lee Buxton opened a clinic in New Haven to teach about contraception and provide contraceptives. Griswold was arrested, found guilty, and appealed. Her case went to the Supreme Court who ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965, that marital privacy is a protected right and contraception is a protected private matter -- just as Roe v. Wade was based largely on privacy rights.
In his concurrence with overturning Roe, Justice Thomas wrote: In future cases, we should reconsider all of this courts substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, . . . Because any substantive due process decision is demonstrably erroneous we have a duty to correct the error established in those precedents. According to Thomas, it is erroneous for people to have the right to contraception and Griswold was a mistake.
In an attempt to protect access to contraception, in July 2022 the House of Representatives passed the Right to Contraception Act. 195 REPUBLICANS VOTED NAY.