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You know what? *Don't* listen to cis men, even if they're pharmacists or biochemists, about why you shouldn't attempt any herbal remedies for pregnancy. There are women with the same degrees. See what *they* have to say about it. Cis men don't belong in this convo.
And jesus fucking CHRIST the paternalism of "but herbal remedies are dangerous, so we shouldn't make info about them widely available."
A) Like pregnancy ISN'T dangerous?
B) You know what would make people more likely to use them in safe ways? Better, more widely available information.
C) You don't get to tell a woman she's not allowed to risk her life to end a pregnancy.
B) You know what would make people more likely to use them in safe ways? Better, more widely available information.
C) You don't get to tell a woman she's not allowed to risk her life to end a pregnancy.
I'm serious about C. The idea that information and access to means of ending pregnancies ourselves has to be kept away from women for our own safety is the same "imprison them for the baby's/their own good" that pro-lifers/anti-choicers use.
Y'all make movies and write stories about men risking their lives to escape from the bad guys, or from prison, like it's some sort of noble thing, but a woman wants to risk her life to escape from an organism enslaving her body and permanently changing it and she's crazy?
Men want to stop women from risking our lives trying to end pregnancies ourselves? Start making networks to get women in red states safe abortions. Start putting your money and your time toward it. You don't get to try to keep info on how to do it ourselves from us.
