Thread by @MeganEvansMD

On the 49th Anniversary of #RoevWade, here are 49 thoughts, facts, and feelings about #abortion. A 🧵

1)Abortion is health care
2)1 in 4 women* will have an abortion in their lifetime…
3)so everyone loves someone who had an abortion

4)60% of people who have an abortion are already parents
5)Banning abortion will not make it go away, it will just make it unsafe
6)More than two-thirds of abortions happen before 8 weeks
7)The phrase “late-term abortion” is not a medical term and does not exist.

8)Abortions save lives. Period. End of story.
9)“Abortion is freedom. It may not be for you, but it may be for someone in your community” @sistersong_WOC
10)The majority of people obtaining abortions identify as Catholic

11)Every abortion provider has provided an abortion for a protestor that has protested outside their clinic…
12)…because they need abortions too
13)75% of people who have an abortion are poor or low income

14)The states with the most restrictive abortion laws tend to have the highest maternal mortality rates. That is not a coincidence
15)Thank you @CoriBush @RepJayapal @RepBarbaraLee for sharing your studies
16) Thank you @AyannaPressley for speaking truth to power

17)Texas’ SB8 is still in affect
18)“Abortion justice is reproductive justice is racial justice” @monicarsimpson
19)38 states require parental involvement in a minor’s decision to have an abortion
20)Title X doesn’t fund abortions

21)Because the #HydeAmendment prohibits federal funds for paying for abortions
22)Not all #ObGyn residents are trained in abortion care-that should scare you
23)A doctor may want to provide abortions to their patients, but their contract may prohibit them-also scary

24)Most Americans oppose overturning #RoeVWade
25)The FDA is permanently allowing Mifepristone to be mailed to people’s home-a win!
26)I performed an abortion on a woman after her water broke at 17 weeks, she came in septic and unstable. She’s alive because of that abortion

27)So DON’T TELL ME that an abortion is NEVER necessary to SAVE LIVES
28)Because abortion is healthcare
29)TRAP laws = targeted regulation of abortion providers
30)23 states have TRAP laws that regulate abortion providers
31)Again, in the name of safety (BS)

32)But abortion is one of the safest and most common procedures in the country
33)TRAP laws are designed to close clinics and decrease access
34)Listen to @AdvocatesOG episode with @dr_moayedi it’s 🔥🔥🔥
35)I’m donating to and #abortionaccess fund today and you should too

36)Follow @PRHdocs @ReproRights @PPact
37)And also follow @KtMcH @DrKateWhite @lirelandMD @LeahNTorres @GynAndTonic @lirelandMD
38)Abortion providers are harassed, stalked, assaulted, MURDERED providing a safe, legal procedure…name another field that deals with this

39)Thank an abortion provider today….seriously. Just do
40)Teen pregnancy is on the decline because of increased access to contraception
41)IUDs don’t cause abortions
42)Restricting access to abortion is designed to control bodies

43)If legislators cared about the child as much as the fetus, we would have
44)Universal FREE childcare and early education
45)Paid family and medical leave
46)Decreasing infant and maternal mortality rates
47)The end of poverty and family homelessness

48)I hope to celebrate a 50th Anniversary of #RoevWade next year
49)And lastly, abortion is healthcare