Abortions Return to Back Alleys Amid Restrictive New State Laws - The Daily Beast

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Abortion in America — increasingly illegal in all but name for everyone except the rich.

In states across the country, women are being arrested for the crime of ending their own pregnancies—though they have a constitutional right to do so in a doctor’s office.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years. And women have started going to jail for the crime of ending their own pregnancies, or trying to.

This week Jennie L. McCormack, a 32-year-old mother of three from eastern Idaho, was arrested for self-inducing an abortion. According to the Associated Press, McCormack couldn’t afford a legal procedure, and so took pills that her sister had ordered online.

Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.

Reblogging to make sure I read this article. Good God.

well you know, this is what our fellow countrymen voted for, so there it is.

AWFUL AWFULNESS

This is actually horrifying.

Is this what we’ve come to? Really?

Source: thedailybeast.com