I've said this before but I really don't think many of you understand how unloved and unprotected the right to abortion was
I don't want to understate the magnitude of losing Roe, but at the same time, it's important to understand that in many ways this is a dotting of is and crossing of ts on a letter written long long ago
So many people — even people who ostensibly believe in a right to abortion! — have spent the past few years looking away as the right to abortion was whittled away, have kept abortion stigmatized, have barely said the *word* abortion.
So many people acted like it was fine for there to be severe barriers to abortion — mandated counseling, waiting periods, hours long journeys to get to the *one* abortion clinic in your state — as long as getting an abortion was *technically* possible.
Anyway we've spent the past six years being all #Resistance and so on and I need you to know, now more than ever, that spreading information about self-managed abortion is *actual resistance*. Here's a list of crucial resources for a post-Roe abortion. abortion.cafe

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Jun 25
If I were a doctor in a state that outlaws abortion I would let all my patients know that I have the ability to prescribe misoprostol for menstrual regulation, which is not an abortion since it’s merely bringing someone’s period back before they even have a positive preg test.
Unlike mifepristone — which is less heavily regulated than before, but still requires providers to jump through dumb hoops — misoprostol is an ulcer medication that is just like any other prescription medication, AND CAN BE PRESCRIBED OFF LABEL.
Menstrual regulation is not abortion — how could it be if you aren’t even testing positive on a pregnancy test?? — but instead exists in the Schrödinger’s cat space of emergency contraception. Is your period late because of pregnancy or just because it’s late? No one knows.
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Jun 25
The other thing about vasectomies is that they are a solution for people who don’t want to get *other* people pregnant. They are not a solution for people who don’t want to get pregnant, not least because *it is possible, even likely, that people will lie about having them*.
There’s no solution for lack of abortion access other than “getting abortion access”
Instead of vasectomies we could be talking about the fact that @AidAccessUSA does advance provision of abortion pills — meaning you’re not currently pregnant and are getting them just in case — to people in ALL 50 STATES, and that abortion pills last at least 2 years.
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Jun 24
VASECTOMIES ARE NOT A SOLUTION TO LACK OF ABORTION ACCESS
A) Vasectomies are not always reversible — any respectable provider will tell you they should be considered permanent — and reversals are incredibly expensive!
B) Lots of people who wind up needing abortions *wanted to get pregnant in the first place*.
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Jun 24
I cannot express enough how much I LOATHE people who just want to be all "well here is some doom" without even an attempt at a fucking solution
Someone QTed a tweet of mine about how you can order misoprostol online without a prescription being all "don't expect that to not be tracked!!" and like... what is the fucking point of saying that if you're not pointing people to internet security resources????
I never want to minimize the legal risks of self-managed abortion, but I also *really* don't want to snuff out the tiny spark of hope that people have in this darkest of hours.
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Jun 24
It never fails to astonish me how many people would rather envision all the new and horrible ways in which they might be oppressed going forward rather than all the exciting and important ways they might resist oppression
This comes up a lot with discussions of SMA. *Obviously* the best (and, I would argue, only acceptable) situation is full, unrestricted access to abortion as needed throughout pregnancy, with the service provided in GYN offices and hospitals everywhere + OTC pills. HOWEVER.
Given the current political landscape, I think it's incredibly important to remind people that even when abortion is criminalized, abortion pills offer *many pepole* a safe way to terminate a pregnancy; and that the "coat hanger" and "back alley" are things of the past.
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Jun 24
The actual question is... truly, dump this man. My wife and I have been married for eight years. We’re in
I have so so so many thoughts about this as someone who has been cheated on and has made some bad mistakes while drunk.

First and foremost: while you can maybe blame a quick kiss on drinking, unless you’re black out drunk… drinking did not make you cheat on your wife.
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