“Useful addresses State by State”, subtitles the American fortnightly The New York Magazine, which devotes its front page to the various options available to people having to resort to abortion in the United States, clearly displaying its desire to help them. In the coming weeks, the right to abortion is on the verge of disappearing in more than half of the states of the country, with the dreaded reversal of the Roe ruling. vs Wade by the majority conservative justices of the Supreme Court.
On behalf of the First Amendment, which advocates the right to freedom of expression, and on behalf of “tradition of informal information sharing” unique to the United States, depending on the title, the magazine and its affiliate site The Cut share information that will be regularly updated online to have a safe abortion.
“With this detailed guide on how to have an elective termination of pregnancy (abortion) today in the United States, our purpose is not to give medical advice but to enlighten you on what you can do and what that you risk.”
Several methods for having an abortion are therefore presented: for example, taking medication delivered by the postal services, “at least if you manage to evade the surveillance tools and the authorities, who have already brought several people to justice, especially women of color”, in states where abortion is already complicated; or clinical intervention in a state where abortion will remain legal. The magazine gives addresses of establishments, but also informs about possible aid to make the journey, cover expenses “and even for childcare”.
The opportunity to get rid of certain vestiges
The file evokes with pedagogy and in several chapters the risks incurred during clandestine abortions, by also evoking the danger of abortive solutions to prepare oneself, in particular recommended on social networks.
Repeal of the constitutional right to abortion will do damage, the headline continues, because history has proven that abortions are performed even when they are illegal.
But the end of Roe vs Wade could also help to understand what made the right to abortion unequally accessible. To perhaps get rid of some inequalities: “This is an opportunity for all those who defend the freedom of reproduction to get rid of some of its vestiges”. for example :
“His intrinsic medical paternalism; ethnic and social inequalities within the movement for the defense of this freedom and in public and private subsidies; the persistent invisibilization of what the patients are going through; and the half-century gap between Roe’s promises and reality.”
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