Abortion Ban Kills

Those who wish to deny women access to mifepristone (the abortion pill) argue that women will still have access to the drug "under the same protections that existed for the first 16 years of its use." Baloney. Women in the US do not have access to ANY abortion that they did in 2016.

From April 8, 2024, "Talk of the Town" - "The Next Abortion Battle" 

“Women will still have access to chemical abortion under the same protections that existed for the first 16 years of mifepristone’s use,” the A.H.M. writes. This is, of course, nonsense. As both the A.H.M. and the Justices—who will hear oral arguments in the case on Tuesday—know quite well, women in the United States do not have the same access to any type of abortion that they did in 2016.

According to an amicus brief from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and other groups, mifepristone “has a safety profile comparable to that of ibuprofen.” The acog brief also emphasizes that easier access is crucial to low-income and rural patients, many of whom live in what are called “maternity-care deserts.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-the-abortion-pill-battle-is-really-about

But, wait! There is more! There is the travel tax imposed on a hundred sixty thousand people who had to FLEE to another state to obtain reproductive health services.

Fourteen states, including Texas, Missouri, and Indiana, have banned almost all abortions; Guttmacher found that in states that bordered those fourteen the number of abortions in the formal medical system had increased by thirty-seven per cent since 2020. (Nationally, the increase was ten per cent.) That number suggests that Dobbs has levied a travel tax: Guttmacher estimates that a hundred and sixty thousand people crossed state lines to obtain an abortion last year.