#abortchat

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I had no idea that the average abortion patient was all of us.

Kassi, 29

One in three women have an abortion. Here are 26 Women Sharing Their Abortion Stories with New York Magazine. From the 1960s to this year, in states all over the country. A very important read.

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"Economically, the results are even more striking. Adjusting for any previous differences between the two groups, women denied abortion were three times as likely to end up below the federal poverty line two years later. Having a child is expensive, and many mothers have trouble holding down a job while caring for an infant. Had the turnaways not had access to public assistance for women with newborns, Foster says, they would have experienced greater hardship."

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Hey! Hey! Look over there! Look! Progressives! Hey! 

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The Court may agree to hear one or more abortion cases in its next term. For the most part, these cases have their roots in the Republican landslides in the 2010 midterm elections. At the time, those electoral victories were largely portrayed as being based on economics; the Tea Party was often described as almost libertarian in orientation. But soon after new state legislators took office it became clear that social issues, and especially abortion, were among their highest priorities. In state after state, those Tea Party lawmakers passed new restrictions on abortion, and as the restrictions have taken effect challenges to them have started to work their way through the courts.

Here's a fun thing that we might be able to look forward to, maybe! 

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ABORTION!!!!!!!!!

ABORTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It sometimes feels like we don't win a whole lot in the reproductive justice movement, and so when we do it seems momentous. Abington Memorial Hospital does not perform many abortions, but the vast majority of the ones that they do involve serious maternal or fetal complications that require the sort of advanced care only available in a hospital setting. If the merger with Holy Redeemer had gone through and Abington had stopped providing abortions, women in the Philadelphia area would have had far fewer options. I am so impressed with the work of local organizations, community members, and the Abington doctors who spoke out to defend women's rights over the past few weeks.

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I really love making abortion maps but I also wonder if putting those abortion maps on my portfolio website is going to prevent me from getting a potentially awesome GIS job, if the person who is doing the hiring doesn't like my abortion maps as much as I do.

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Initial findings from my PA abortion clinic mapping project

the only clinics in Western PA are in Pittsburgh

there are three separate clinics within the University of Pittsburgh's hospital system?

health codes are really fucking confusing