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ShazzieB

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1. I have just one quibble with this quote...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2022, 09:52 PM

Dec 2022

“It is clear that abortion *bans don’t stop people from having or needing abortions, they just make it more difficult to access care,” said Jennifer Welch, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois.

Actually, I'm pretty sure abortion bans do stop some people from having abortions. The bans create a lot of hoops in the form of distance, expense, etc., that not everyone is able to find a way to jump through.

I'm sure she didn't mean to imply that the bans don't stop any individuals from accessing abortion care (someone in her position doubtlessly knows better), but I wished she'd found a better way to phrase this statement.

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6 months after end of Roe, Illinois abortion providers treat a 'historic' number of out-of-state [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2022 OP

I have just one quibble with this quote... ShazzieB Dec 2022 #1

Agree that it's not totally true. The poorest can't make it to IL. live love laugh Dec 2022 #2

Might not be able to travel raising2moredems Dec 2022 #3

I agree on the end game. I think that goal was in place live love laugh Dec 2022 #4