1/ #DemVoice1- Most Americans support a woman’s right to choose. But they also have a general moral discomfort with “late-term” abortions. Anti-abortion activists & legislators played on that moral unease & achieved broad support for the bill largely by focusing
2/their public campaigns on the vivid pictures & descriptions of “partial-birth” abortions performed late-term. However, in 2019, 75% of all U.S. abortion occurred prior to the 10th week & 93% (CDC) of abortions occur before 14 weeks’ gestation!
3/Only 18% of pregnancies end in abortion. From those, about 45% of the pregnancies happened because the used of birth control method failed (7% of birth control pills, patches & rings, 1% of IUDs).The highest unintended pregnancy was among women ages 18-24 years old, low-income,
4/Black & Hispanic women. The WSJ poll found 48% of U.S. adults somewhat support restricting abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, while 43% oppose it, with 75% of Republicans & 21% of Democrats backing 15-week bans.
5/There’s far more support for legal abortions in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. An unintended pregnancy or forced pregnancy is a risk factor for poor maternal mental health including perinatal depression, stress& lower levels of psychological
6/well-being & life satisfaction. It’s also risks to the fetus & infant of a woman over age 40 include spontaneous abortion, chromosomal defects, congenital malformations, fetal distress, toxemia, venous thrombosis, Down syndrome and more serious condition can be occurring.
7/Maternal mortality rates are several times higher in women over age 40 then younger woman.Before Roe thousands of women died annually from complications of unsafe,illegal abortion&because of extreme attacks on safe,legal abortion care,this could happen again right here in U.S.!
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