Thread by @mariliacout

1. I'm originally from Brazil. Brazil is one of the countries with the highest unsafe abortion mortality rates. It has always been. When I was 16, a girl from our anti-fascist organization died from sepsis 2 days after her abortion. After that there were several.

2. Higher middle-class and rich women had safe and humane abortions. According to my mother (94 yrs old), in her days, middle-class women still had a chance of safer abortions but they were punished by not being given anesthesia.

3. That's the most perverse aspect of the authoritarian anti-abortion policy: deaths and long-term effects of complications.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P….

4. Anti-abortion laws have absolutely no foundation except the willingness to inflict pain, fear and control. They have never deterred abortions. Their only effect is death and suffering.

who.int/news-room/fact…

5. @MSF_USA have called it the "forgotten emergency" because it is.

doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/new…

6. Abortion rates go down in countries that legalize it. Demonic theocrats such as the Barrett (I don't believe in demons but I believe it's important to use this word with those who do: they must be held accountable for their sadistic position) know it.

nbcnews.com/health/health-…

7. The same applies for the "war on drugs": it has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective against undesired consequences of drug use. Those who defend it do so for moral and ideological reasons and should be publicly shamed.

guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/ind…

8. The days when the ignorance excuse applied (if it ever did) are long gone. Anti-abortion, anti-drug and hard-line incarceration policies are EVIL, SADISTIC, RACIST, ELITIST and socially damaging. Defending them is unforgivable.

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