If this number of 32,260 babies saved is wrong, do you want to know about it?

If not, don't read the rest of this thread.

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https://twitter.com/StudentsforLife/status/1648054714733404160

First, you should know something that Students for Life left out of their story.

The new report that says there were 32k+ fewer abortions since Roe was overturned does not count ANY of the self-managed abortions occurring in the US.

The report is clear on this; SFLA is not.

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What is a self-managed abortion?

It's an abortion performed by a pregnant woman outside the formal healthcare system of clinics and doctors. Usually done today by ordering abortion pills online.

This ad from a pro-abortion org shows how easy it is.

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vimeo.com/753973355?embe…

How many self-managed abortions (SMA) are occurring in the U.S. today?

No one knows definitively b/c they aren't reported. But we do have strong indicators that SMAs have skyrocketed since Roe was overturned.

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nytimes.com/2022/11/01/ups…

We do know that state-by-state abortion numbers look much different in reality than what many #ProLife headlines are saying.

For example, compare this headline:

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lifesitenews.com/news/texas-vir…

With the estimate from @AATXNow that shows that, at most, abortions of Texas babies is down by 5.4%, and 19,000+ legal self-managed abortions are still happening on Texas soil annually while another 32,000+ Texas women travel out-of-state to abort.

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abolishabortiontx.org/abortion-is-st…

Does it bother you that headlines from Pro-Life organizations appear to be playing games w/ the numbers?

It should b/c the body count is real whether the babies are killed in clinics or at home. And an inflated sense of victory doesn't help anyone, least of all the babies.

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