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To serve women who don't have access'
Gomperts is not new to this work. Twelve years ago, her site, Women on Web, went live to offer a similar service to women living in countries where abortion is illegal. Think, for example, Ireland, Poland, and much of Latin America. Each month, she says, the Women on Web help desk receives 10,000 emails in 17 different languages.
Not everyone who reaches out needs or gets prescriptions. Women on Web mails out about 9,000 abortion pill packages each year, Gomperts said. Among those she's served: women in the U.S. military who are serving abroad and have nowhere to turn, she said.
The organization is available to answer questions about self-managed abortion and refer women to local clinics or resources they may not already know are available to them. Women on Web -- and now Aid Access, too -- is "not intended to replace existing services" but "to serve women who don't have access," Gomperts said.
Since being quietly introduced in April, Aid Access has already fielded 3,000 requests for help from within the U.S., said Gomperts. And she's already written prescriptions for 600 women.
Those numbers are likely to jump, now that the initiative went public late last week -- a move spurred by the recent confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Abortion rights activists, including Planned Parenthood, have argued that Kavanaugh will usher in the end of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the US and made it a constitutional right in 1973.
A 'moral obligation'
Interest in and use of medical abortion in the U.S. has risen in recent years. A study published in 2015 showed the regimen to be about 97 percent effective.
The protocol combines two drugs. Mifepristone blocks progesterone, a hormone needed to allow a pregnancy to continue. The second pill used in medical abortions, misoprostol, stimulates the uterus, causing it to cramp, bleed and contract -- thereby ending the pregnancy in what is essentially a miscarriage, Aid Access explains on its website.
Even as the overall number of abortions declined, medical abortions grew from 6 percent of nonhospital abortions in 2001 to 31 percent in 2014, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights think tank. And in 2014, 45 percent of abortions before nine weeks of gestation were abortions induced by medication.
Searches online for ways to self-manage or self-induce abortions also indicate a growing demand for alternatives perhaps driven by barriers to clinic access due to financial hardship, geographic distance, fear of being publicly shamed or any number of reasons. Research published earlier this year showed that in a one-month period in 2017 nearly 210,000 Google searches in the U.S. were for information about self-abortion.
🤔 The Secret Origin of "Hollywood" will shock you! (R$E)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLlNMecWY3E
Possibly another one to add to the leaving/retiring list??? https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/pixar-co-founder-to-retire-what-could-this-mean-for-the-company.html
You have gained a rank @pinetree, you just advanced to 1 . Thanks for all you do Patriot!
WOW !!!! LIARS!!!! Thank God for the Rabbi's word of wisdom....https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1056935307751419909
1 Student died after being shot at high school in North Carolina, today
Probably want to "anoint" her
Boy they’re desperate
Patriot’s Soapbox And Monetizing QAnon
Perhaps the biggest money-makers in the Q realm are Coleman Rogers (PamphletAnon) and his wife Christina Urso (who goes by the name CodeMonkey), who started and run Patriot’s Soapbox (PSB), a 24/7 YouTube livestream of Q analysis and registered LLC. Unirock, who has been investigating QAnon for several months, believes that PamphletAnon is responsible for turning QAnon into a cash cow.
Although the corroborating video has been deleted by Patriot’s Soapbox, Unirock told me that during the first two months of the channel, viewers were asked to leave the livestream on at all hours of the day so they would always have a high view count.
@retiredDep that’s who wrote the article?