Blogger's how-to for abortions stirs debate

[DaveColorado]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002863579_abortion14.html

Blogger's how-to for abortions stirs debate

By DRU SEFTON

Newhouse News Service

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* "Molly Saves the Day" blog

A feminist blogger has posted explicit directions online for a surgical abortion, in reaction to the new South Dakota law all but banning the procedure.

Her action troubles activists on both sides of the issue: Is it a harbinger of a return to the era of secret, illegal abortions?

At her "Molly Saves the Day" Web log, the 21-year-old Florida resident uses the pseudonym Molly Blythe. Given the volatility of the abortion debate, she requested that her real name and city of residence not be used in this story.

In an interview, the blogger said South Dakota's ban on abortion — even in cases of rape and incest — prompted her post, "For the Women of South Dakota: An Abortion Manual." The blogger, who has no medical background, said she has been compiling instructions for several years.

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[IndyOp]

1. Women have been giving themselves and others abortions for 1,000's years

The knowledge of what herbs to use to stop the 'quickening' used to belong to all women. With the rise of Western medicine - and the use of surgical techniques - women lost their power to male doctors.

:(

[ugarte]

3. There needs to be a new Underground Railroad

for women stuck in red states without access to abortion. Maybe it's already being done, but I'm sure millions of pro-choice people would volunteer or contribute money. Does anyone know if anything like this is happening?

[murielm99]

5. It used to happen, back before abortion was legal.

Have you ever heard of "Jane?" It was that type of underground resource for women who needed abortions.

We may need to put it in place again.

[sui generis]

2. there are no questions here

her "actions" on paper are what these fuckbrain morons should have thought of to begin with. A law making abortions illegal merely makes abortions dangerous, it doesn't stop them.

If it disturbs them on paper, imagine how disturbed they'll be when their daughters or sisters hemorrhage to death or die from sepsis following a kitchen abortion.

D'oh! Shoulda thoughta that.

[Zenlitened]

4. Well said.

:applause:

A law making abortions illegal merely makes abortions dangerous, it doesn't stop them.

[DaveColorado]

6. This is what bothered me

'Gans, director of American Victims of Abortion, an outreach program of the National Right to Life Committee, added that such "scare tactics" are used by "pro-abortion groups whose agenda is more important than women's lives."'



The anti-choice people are starting to use the argument that abortion is harmful to women's health, when in fact childbirth has a much higher rate of mortality for the woman. Also there is the fact that making abortion illegal will lead to women's health being harmed as well. I don't know what reality these people live in, but I know it's not based on science.