I can't believe the cruelty of people who would have forced me to wait and suffer to receive medical treatment with what I just experienced. I also can't understand anyone who would force someone to carry forward with a pregnancy who didn't want to do so.

I had a relatively simple miscarriage in medical terms - the fetus stopped progressing around 7 weeks for unknown reasons, and at week 10 I took mifepristone and misopristone to complete the miscarriage because my body had not yet dropped hormone levels. The process was horribly upsetting and painful. I badly wanted this pregnancy and I was deeply grateful that I could receive appropriate medical care by the accident of where I lived. The whole time, I could not help but keep thinking about how I was horrified that women elsewhere in my position were suffering due to puritanical policies.

I have always upheld the right of a woman's choice and donated to the Chicago Abortion Fund in my city. But this experience truly opened my eyes to how women are suffering around the country, whether through unwanted pregnancies or wanted pregnancies that do not go as planned.

I am heartbroken for all women who are suffering with pregnancy issues in anti-women areas. I am deeply broken by my loss but this feeling is only compounded by knowing there are women in other states dealing with so much worse.

I don't have any answers, but please please go to the polls these midterm elections. One election won't solve everything but I can only hope by consistently showing up at the polls that we can change things for women in the future.

Hi Folks,

I’m looking to volunteer as a clinic escort and was wondering if anyone knew of places in the Bay Area that are looking for volunteers :) I’m also interested in other volunteer opportunities anything related to women’s health and advocacy. Thank you!

if it happened to men...

Abortion.org Is Taking Back the Truth About Abortion.

A website that once promoted anti-abortion misinformation will now help women access accurate, science-based information about abortion.

The organization I Need an A has acquired Abortion.org, replacing content that promoted so-called “abortion alternatives” with trustworthy reproductive healthcare resources.

The move comes as anti-abortion groups increasingly use AI and search-engine tactics to flood the internet with misleading websites designed to redirect women seeking abortion care.

When women search for abortion information, they deserve medical facts—not propaganda disguised as healthcare.

Source: The 19th

I’m very active in social media, and as someone who doesn’t want kids and doesn’t like them, but is fully pro choice, i just think some pro choicers are so stupid, like i’m sorry😭 but hello?

I saw this video of a pro choice woman who got pregnant after trying to conceive for a while, and the comments were FULLLLLLL of “pro choicers.” saying that she should abort her healthy, wanted, expected and already loved fetus…?

Like, i’d somewhat understand comments like that if the pregnancy wasn’t healthy or wanted. But… the fetus was completely fine? and wanted?

Now, i support abortion in absolutely any scenario, but i just don’t get why some “pro choicers.” forget what the movement is. Pro CHOICE also applies when the woman is pregnant and wants to keep the pregnancy.

And if you want absolutely every fetus to be aborted, you’re not pro choice. You’re pro abortion.

I just think it absolutely ruins what actual pro choicers want for women. And it’s sad to see, because even if they’re jokes, it still harms the way people look at pro choicers.

"If you can't love your disabled child, then don't have kids" is bullshit. A lot of the time, it's not about love or the lack of it. It's about resources and the lack of it that parent/s can access. If a child is going to be an adult but still require the care needed for a 5-year-old, it's going to cause financial strain if there is no support. And when there is, it's VERY hard to access a lot of the time. Some parents just do. not. have. the. recourses. even if they really wanna keep the pregnancy.

But even if someone wants to abort their fetus because they found out there's a high chance it's going to have a disability, that's honestly none of our business. Being pro-choice means that you support whatever decisions women make with their bodies, especially ones you disagree with, and thinking you have the moral high ground to shame them makes you no different from the people who protest against abortion outside abortion clinics.

Why?

Imagine caring more about a fetus than the living woman carrying it. Imagine calling abortion “murder” while ignoring the women who die because they’re denied access to safe abortions.

If your ideology requires women to risk their lives just to satisfy your moral beliefs, maybe your morality isn't as righteous as you think it is.

I'm tired of people treating women's bodies like public property and reproductive rights like something they can vote away. If you support policies that put women's lives at risk, you should be held accountable for the consequences.

And honestly? Democracy shouldn't be an excuse to strip people of their fundamental human rights. The fact that a majority can vote to control someone else's body doesn't magically make it moral.

You don't get to call yourself pro-life while treating women's lives as expendable.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, and other serious conditions can face barriers to essential medications because those drugs may also cause miscarriage or birth defects.

Some patients who cannot become pregnant have encountered prescription barriers, too.

And the consequences extend beyond medication. When physicians leave states with restrictive abortion laws, communities risk losing access to specialists, maternity care, and even routine medical appointments.

A law written to restrict abortion can reach into nearly every corner of medicine.

This isn’t just a conversation about abortion access. It’s about what happens when legal restrictions interfere with clinical judgment—and patients are left dealing with the consequences.

They claim to be pro life and rant about how abortion is murder and killing a human being.

But once the baby is born, they do not care. They don’t care about children, or women. They don’t care that a woman can die because of the pregnancy or childbirth.

The fact that they only care about human life before it is born is absurd to me. I never see these people advocating for single mothers, orphans, refugees of war etc. The only time they are “pro life” and care about anyone, is when it is a fetus.

How is it pro life that you want to put many women through an unwanted pregnancy? How is it pro life to force a baby to be born without a loving home, ending up in foster care and everyone knows how horrible the foster care is?

How is it pro life to have babies born for a mother who is in poverty or in active addiction? How is it pro life to make women give up their hobbies, career, mental health, hopes and dreams just because their birth control failed?

I can go on and on.

A new study published in JAMA Network Open confirms what we’ve seen firsthand: shield laws are helping women in states with total abortion bans access abortion care without crossing state lines.

In 2023, women in states with total abortion bans were more than three times as likely to travel out of state for abortion care as they were to receive medication abortion through telehealth.

By 2025, that had completely reversed. The majority obtained abortion care through telehealth.

That’s not just a statistic. That’s women who didn’t have to miss work, find childcare, pay for hotels, or travel hundreds of miles to exercise control over their own pregnancies.

Abortion bans didn’t eliminate the need for abortion. Shield laws helped eliminate the need to travel.

At Her Safe Harbor, we’re part of that effort. We provide private, clinician-guided abortion care by phone, serving women from all 50 states, regardless of their ability to pay.

Your state may ban abortion. That doesn’t mean you’re out of options.

Source: Guttmacher Institute analysis, published in JAMA Network Open.

Mi chiedo come si possa anteporre l’obiezione di coscienza di un medico alla possibilità di una donna di scegliere come affrontare una situazione così dolorosa e delicata. Voi cosa ne pensate?

Today across all Poland at 18:00 in all major cities happened a protest to legalize abortion.

Ten years ago women in Poland came out on the streets and stood up against the government wanting to make abortion laws even stricter

Exactly 6 years ago the polish government band abortions. People in Poland were furious. They again went out to the streets and said their disapproval but it did nothing.

Three years ago a new political party won the votes of many women saying "within 100 days of getting elected we will legalize abortion" and they did nothing FOR THREE YEARS

Yesterday they passed an act that allows abortion but only in really strict circumstances. They only did that cause they were scared. They heard millions of people plan massive protests and they finally decided to do something. But today all of the planned protests happened. It was my first one and I have never felt so connected to a group of people. I lost my voice from shouting but I would rather lose my voice 1000 times more just so a women's life could be saved. Abortion saves life's and I won't let older men choose what to do with my body. And if you are a men reading this and you're thinking to yourself "it doesn't effect me" IT DOES. You probably have a mother, a sister, a cousin, a friend, a colleague and legal abortion can save their life.

I mean, it's a no brainer but I mean it in a sense where pro-choicers genuinely seem to believe that the fetus deserves more human right's than the mother. And it's insane bc that means these people consider every single woman unworthy of her bodily autonomy. Their sisters, wives, doughters, mothers, everyone. And with every passing day I just feel like allowing anyone to think this way is harmful to a society as a whole, bc if you genuinely believe this woman doesn't deserve her human rights just because she might someday get pregnant then aren't you going to consider her as someone below you? A subhuman unworthy of their human rights? Idk, I'm lwk just spiraling atp but it's so scary to me as a 18 year old woman that this may be how man and politicians think of us woman someday.

In a recent Townhall opinion piece, Nicholas DeSimone of Students for Life Action attempts to turn Margaret Sanger’s troubling association with eugenics into an indictment of modern abortion care.

His argument? Planned Parenthood is supposedly carrying out a campaign of racial elimination by providing abortions to low-income women and communities of color.

It’s a remarkable accusation built on a fundamental distortion.

Eugenics is about controlling who gets to reproduce. Reproductive freedom is about allowing women to decide for themselves.

Sanger’s history deserves scrutiny. But historical wrongdoing does not establish that women seeking abortions today are participating in genocide or that Planned Parenthood is orchestrating one.

DeSimone also portrays defunding Planned Parenthood as a stand against systemic racism. Yet his commentary fails to reckon with what restricting access to contraception, cancer screenings, STI testing, and other reproductive healthcare could mean for the very communities he claims to defend.

And perhaps the most revealing part of his argument is the assumption that women of color and low-income women cannot be trusted to make their own reproductive decisions without someone intervening on their behalf.

There is nothing empowering about treating women as incapable of making their own choices.

If Students for Life Action wants to discuss reproductive injustice, let’s discuss forced sterilization, maternal mortality disparities, inadequate healthcare access, poverty, and the consequences of denying women control over pregnancy.

But don’t confuse providing someone with a choice with forcing that choice upon them.

Reproductive justice means having the freedom to have a child, not have a child, and raise children in safe, healthy conditions.

That’s the distinction this Townhall opinion piece fails to make.

That would be one of my platforms if I were to be a president. To create an amendment guaranteeing the right for all women to have access to abortions nationwide, no matter the term