"Two years after #SCOTUS toppled federal protections for [abortion], growing numbers of #men in red states are speaking out in defense of #ReproductiveRights because of the harrowing experiences they’ve seen wives or partners go through when pregnancies went tragically awry, endangering their #health or ability to bear #children. Some... had been staunch #abortion opponents; others concede they’d given the issue little thought until it hit close to home."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/abortion-bans-pregnancy-miscarriage-men/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •" #Texas radio #DJ Ryan Hamilton detailed what happened to his wife, Jess, during a prolonged #miscarriage at 13wks. She was refused treatment & sent home by 2 #Dallas -area medical facilities where doctors cited the state’s #abortion restrictions...
She ended up bleeding heavily for more than 24hrs until she lost consciousness on their bathroom floor."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/abortion-bans-pregnancy-miscarriage-men/
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A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux (The Washington Post)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Yet connecting the dots between #miscarriage care and #abortion is still not clear to many #men...
“The silver lining of #Dobbs is that it forced people to talk about what was stigmatized and shrouded in mystery — miscarriage, fetal anomalies, stillbirth,” she said. They’re now realizing the range of scenarios that can be directly impacted by state bans “and the end of this illusion that you can separate elective abortion from emergency abortions.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/abortion-bans-pregnancy-miscarriage-men/
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A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux (The Washington Post)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"In #Idaho, John Adkins raced his wife from their home in Caldwell, a suburb of #Boise, to #Portland, Ore, last yr after an ultrasound showed a fetal anomaly so complex that she was likely to suffer potentially deadly complications. Jennifer was nearing the end of her 1st trimester.
“I felt like a fugitive,” said Adkins, 37, a sixth-generation Idahoan. He remembers local doctors telling the couple that ending her pregnancy at that point would be #illegal"
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