#repro rights

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This information is specific to Texas, but applicable everywhere with abortion restrictions!

Here is another good thread about resources available to women who need to get an abortion but live in a state where it is restricted. (Remember - abortion is still legal in all 50 states as of today, May 4, 2022.)

TLDR; you don’t need to stockpile Plan B, panic, or assume that extreme methods will be necessary. There are a LOT of resources out there. Know about these resources now so you are prepared just in case.

Self-managed medication abortion is commonandsafe.It may be legally dubious to have it mailed to you, but it is an existing option that many people use. Learn more about the legality at https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org.

If/When/How Repro Legal Helpline

Also just general advice - while it may be tempting to share or post things like the copy/paste above, please look to pro-choice activists and organizations instead! They have been preparing for this outcome for years and providing resources that actually help real people (as opposed to posting about hypothetical situations that cause mass panic). There are already people on the ground doing this work. Listen to them!!

I am fucking terrified for the future of this country.

I work as a fundraiser for planned parenthood. I’ve gotten a few unsavory characters. None of them bother me as much as the standard Republican. They’re so fucking smug.

“We don’t kill babies” is what a guy said to me, wearing, I shit you not, a pro-2A shirt. Killing babies is wrong unless they’re in 1st grade I guess?

“Follow the science” another guy told me, after every fucking medical professional I spoke to that day was firmly on my side and terrified for their patients.

“If you took birth control, you wouldn’t need it” a woman said to me, as though birth control isn’t next on the chopping block. As though it works all the time. As though that’s even the point.

I hate them. I hate them more and more every day. Conservatives are nothing but brain dead goose stepping morons who will happily march themselves into a mass grave. They don’t get it, and I can’t possibly convey to them that nothing they claim to believe matches what they advocate for. The core of their political framework is hatred.

I hate conservatives for what they do.Conservatives hate you for who you are.

God I am so painfully tired of pro-birther rhetoric.

Even when years of Catholic brainwashing made me “pro-life”, I knew when life began was not the argument. This was a legal discussion- when the rightto life began was the question. When does one become a legal person? Now, the only answer that actually makes sense is birth, not conception or anytime in between.

But the thing is, is that that doesn’t matter either. Because legal persons are still not entitled to the bodies of other people. You would never,ever be forced to hand me over your lung. Why do I have to hand someone my uterus?

I don’t care if you believe life begins at conception. I don’t care if you think legal personhood begins at conception. I don’t care if you think a fetus is an innocent baby and that abortion is murder.

I want you to explain to me, concisely, why I should be legally obligated to keep a fetus alive, but you are not legally obligated to walk around with one kidney and one lung. And then I want you to shut up, because no matter what your answer is, it boils down to “I have the right to bodily autonomy, and you don’t.”

I can literally hold identical views to what I did when I was religious- that life begins at conception, that fetuses are people, that the unborn should have rights, that abortion is the taking of a life, that how you got pregnant doesn’t matter- and stillarrive at a prochoice conclusion. Because it’s my body. And it’s my choice who I lend it out to.

provoice:

New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory:

*In New South Wales, a referral from a doctor is not required.

• Blue Water Medical, Hornsby, Coffs Harbour, and Macquarie Fields
• Contraceptive Services, Sydney
• Gynae Care, Artarmon
• Gynaecology Centres Australia, Canberra, Gosford, Newcastle, Fairfield, Westmead, and Penrith
• Dr. Marie (Marie Stopes International), Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Fairfield, Westmead, and Penrith
• Preterm Foundation, Surry Hills
• The Private Clinic, Surry Hills

Northern Territory:

*Please note that the Northern Territory has some of the most conservative laws on abortion. Abortion is legal until 14 weeks if two doctors agree the person’s physical and/or mental health is endangered, or for serious fetal abnormality. Legal up to 23 weeks in an emergency.

• Darwin Private Hospital, Tiwi, (Telephone: 08 8948 0144)
• Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, (Telephone: 08 8951 7777) *Must have a doctor’s referral

Queensland:

• Dr. Marie Campbell Street, Bowen Hills (Abortions performed up to 16 weeks, medication abortion available up to 7 weeks)
• Greenslopes Day Surgery, Brisbane
• Dr. Marie Salisbury, Salisbury
• Spring Hill Clinic, Spring Hill (Abortions performed up to 16 weeks, medication abortion available up to 7 weeks)
• Dr. Marie Southport, Southport
• Tweed Heads Medical Centre, Tweed Heads (Abortions performed up to 14 weeks, medication abortion available up to 7 weeks)
• East Coast Women’s Centre, Nambour (Abortions performed up to 16 weeks, medication abortion available up to 7 weeks)
• Dr. Marie Rockhampton, Rockhampton (Abortions performed up to 15 weeks, medication abortion available up to 7 weeks)
• Dr. Marie Townsville, Townsville (Abortions performed up to 15 weeks)
• Cairns Sexual Health Service, Cairns (Medication abortion only - up to 9 weeks) - Clients must live within one hour of a hospital. Please call the Sexual Health Service and speak to the Options Nurse (available Monday to Thursday 8:30am-4pm, or Friday from 1pm). You may need to have some tests performed by your doctor first.

*Call Children by Choice on 1800 177 725 for details of available surgical abortion services in Cairns. Surgical abortion is only available to 14 weeks in Cairns.

South Australia:

*South Australian law requires that a woman be a South Australian resident for at least two months in order to access a termination in that state.

• Pregnancy Advisory Centre, Woodville Park (Adelaide suburb) *Please visit this website for all services in South Australia

Tasmania:

• Fertility Control Clinic, Moonah
• Specialist Gynaecology Centres, Hobart and Launceston

*For more information contact Hobart Women’s Health Centre  on 03 6231 3212 or Family Planning Tasmania - Hobart 03 6228 5244 (Family Planning also located in Burnie and Launceston).

Victoria:

• Pregnancy Advisory Service (Royal Women’s Hospital), Carlton
• Fertility Control Clinic, East Melbourne
• Hampton Park Women’s Health Care Centre, Hampton Park
• Dr. Marie, Maroondah, East St. Kilda Centre, and East Melbourne
• The Women’s Clinic on Richmond Hill - Procedures performed at private hospitals within 20km radius of Melbourne

Western Australia:

• Nanyara Medical Group, Rivervale
• Dr. Marie, Midland
• King Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco - High risk patients only; abortions performed up to 19 weeks. (Telephone: 08 9340 2222Ext2777)

**Age 16 years and over
 Need to be advised that counseling is available should they wish to access it. Clinics require: a positive pregnancy test and client’s acknowledgement that counseling has been offered or received from a doctor.

**Age 16 years and under
One of the parents has to be given the opportunity to participate in a counseling process with the person and their doctor. However, contact Family Planning WA to ask for help to get a court order if this is too difficult, distressing or dangerous for you.

**Pregnancies 20 weeks and over
Abortions after 20 weeks can only be performed for a severe medical condition of the person or the pregnancy, which is decided on a case by case basis. Contact King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women.

Other - Counseling, Support, etc

• Children by Choice

boyforbodilyautonomy:

if you’re anti choice stop pretending to give a shit about sexism.

you don’t give a fuck about sexism, you perpetrate misogyny. you aren’t angry that female fetuses are aborted for being female, you’re angry that those people are allowed to abort for any reason.

burningbells-blog:

If you need Plan B, here’s a printable $10 off coupon. 

trillasstransbro:

Reproductive Justice (RJ) isn’t just abortions. And it’s not just just about cis white women.

• RJ is folx of color not having children bc they are afraid of them being killed due to racist injustice.

• RJ is transmasculine (transmen, non-binary afab people, bois/boys, etc) folx being denied medical care because of our trans status, that is if we can even afford it.

• RJ is predominantly folx of color not being to keep their children or give them up for adoption, even if they wanted to, bc they can’t afford the medical bills that come with having a baby.

• RJ is folx who don’t speak fluent English having limited access to medical care, no matter what their decision is.

• RJ is dark-skinned folx receiving less pain meds during pregnancy or the doctor will ignore them all together bc of racist stereotypes which puts their bodies under unnecessary stress which in turn effects the fetus.

• RJ is transmasculine folx being misgendered by hospital staff.

• RJ is transmasculine folx having to teach our health care providers about our bodies, HRT, detransitioning (bc you can’t be on T if you’re pregnant), basic do’s and dont’s, etc. all while being sensationalized as a “pregnant man”.

• RJ is medical staff assuming you want an abortion since you’re transmasc.

And that’s all I got so far. Please add more. And I like the word ‘folx’.

thecynicalhippie:

Read it.
Learn it.

Support choice!