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>>"Someone’s grandma might know about the old days. Drinking turpentine or Clorox, which is what the poorest women often did. They also took massive doses of quinine. Equally dangerous and, like the household cleaners, not a particularly effective abortifacient. Although as faded memories become urban myths no one seems to remember that these methods don’t work and often kill, and so they remain in the lexicon of “options.”
>>"Many
women find their way to people who offer certain “skills.” Procedures,
if you can even call them that, offered in back rooms. Rooms that don’t
have an autoclave to sterilize tools or even basic resuscitation
equipment. Some rooms have the essence of respectability, many do not.
Almost none are operated by anyone who has more than a cursory knowledge
of the reproductive tract.
On kitchen tables these
women lie. Some might be offered a Valium or a Vicodin. For a price. It
might ease the pain a little. These medications may also makes them
less likely to cry during the sexual assault that can be part of the
deal. After all, who is going to complain about getting raped at their
illegal abortion?"
>>"But
if she is so alone, so alone that she can’t fathom asking anyone she
might take a stick, or a coat hanger, or a knitting needle and stick it
up her vagina. She won’t know about the cervical os, the opening of the
cervix, or that she has no hope of finding it blindinly. She’ll push. It
will hurt. A lot. But she’s desperate. She might stick it into her
uterus, or right through the uterus into bowel. After two or three days
of fevers and cramping and vomiting she might go to the hospital and
hopefully the damage and infection will be confined to her uterus. She
might also slice through blood vessels and bleed to death by herself on
her bathroom floor."
They worship the fetus and loathe the child.
And the mother doesn't count at all.
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This isn't about morals or morality. It's about control. It's about
putting women in their place by frightened, bigotted, misogynic, and I
use the term loosely, "men", that can't adjust to to women having
control or an equal say in this country.
They have been watching their control of every aspect of this country
slip away for several decades and have decided to try and gain some sort
of control by waging a war of sorts on women, children and the poor and
disabled.
But the 'ultimate insult'
to their authority is in the White House and if it takes throwing the
country under the bus to get him (President Obama) out of there then the
disenfranchised and poor in the country are just collateral damage.
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Especially jackholes like this...
Mississippi Representative Lester "Bubba" Carpenter gloating that he and his anti-choice cronies had passed a bill that could effectively put an end to safe, legal abortion in the state of Mississippi. The money quote:
It's going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to — Roe vs. Wade. So we've done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They're like, 'Well, the poor pitiful women that can't afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger. That's what we've learned over and over and over.'##################################
But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere."
Makes a person wonder if his parents had any intelligent children that lived.
