#the year after roe vs wade was overturned more than 200 women were criminally investigated for miscarrying | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ourladyoftheflytrap · 2 months ago

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Heartbreaking to think about how many women will miscarry or do at home abortions and then die in the following year because they didn't feel like they could tell their doctor about it, so their doctor didn't know to be looking out for the warning signs of impending maternal death

#the year after roe vs wade was overturned more than 200 women were criminally investigated for miscarrying #several spent time in jail and many were found guilty of lesser crimes (not murder)#how many more women will cover up their miscarriages and abortions? terrified of going to jail and losing their families?#how many of These women will successfully hide their pregnancies only to suddenly die of heart failure or hemorrhaging in the coming months?#its a culture of terror for women. even with legal abortion our maternal deaths increased every year for every race of women this century #while countless other countries have been reducing their maternal death rate each year america's continues to climb #and that is from census data taken BEFORE roe vs wade was overturned #the WHO lists access to safe and legal abortion as integral to preventing maternal deaths #and here we are - already failing our mothers by the thousands and still deciding its not enough #still deciding that more should die at the alter of male self righteousness

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