We will no longer give you the sadistic satisfaction of watching us harm or kill ourselves in order to circumvent your cruel antiabortion laws. We can safely manage our own abortions at home now.
In Finland 96% of all abortions are medical abortions. In California physicians are trying to make abortion pills over-the-counter. A medical abortion done in the first trimester is proven to be 98% effective and is considered safer than childbirth or using over the counter Ibuprofen, high dose aspirin, or viagra. Both medicines, Mifepristone and Misoprostol, are on the Core Model List of Essential Medicines put out by WHO.
Abortion pills consist of two medications. The first one, Mifipristone, blocks the hormones needed to maintain a pregnancy. The second, Misoprostol, taken a day or so later, opens the cervix and causes the uterus to contract.
Everything you wanted to know about abortion medication can be found on the Code C or the AidAccess website, which is now supplying Texas women with abortion pills for about $100. (link)
Women in Texas could be availing themselves of abortion pills sold online, but they don’t seem to know about this opportunity. Hopefully, they will soon learn that they can manage their own abortions at home in absolute privacy.
Questions for Lawyers
Say you are a Texas mother who helps her daughter get an abortion. You get sued, and then you owe someone $10,000. How does the bounty hunter collect the money? What if you are on social security, and have no savings?
What if the abortion helper moves to a reproductive freedom state like New York, or lives there to begin with? Does New York State have to help the bounty hunter collect the money?
Can New York enact a law that makes it illegal to collect money from abortionists and abortionist enablers who have fled to New York from other states?
Under this Texas antiabortionist law, is it advantageous to be penniless if you are sued?
With medical abortion, when does the abortion start. Can you be taken to court in more than one state for the abortion if it happens in more then one state? Also, what happens if a woman legally takes Mifipristone in California, and travels to New York, where she legally takes Misoprostol, with a stopover in Texas. Can someone sue the airline she used on the basis of the Texas law and the stopover in Texas?
If the Trump GOP takes control of the federal government, could they pass something like the Fugitive Slave Act that would require states like NY to return abortionists to Texas? The Fugitive Slave Act was formally repealed in June 1864, but was, as far as I know, never declared unconstitutional.