To show you this video of a woman’s walk to access healthcare?

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This has had me in tears and I think people need to see how hard it can be to access woman’s healthcare. I believe this is the last abortion clinic left in Kentucky. How in 2019 does a woman need an escort and a coat over her head to walk into a medical facility?!

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Remember The Handmaids Tale, before it turned to Gilead, when things weren't really right but no-one could quite say why - well that's what this video reminds me of.

Why do they have to have specific abortion clinics? Why can't terminations just be carried out in general hospitals where no-one would know what procedure you're having?

not in some hospitals in some states they are. Places like this tho, its only private facilities / clinics that are left who are willing to provide services.

Its a combination of funding, insurance, medical malpractice insurance, Drs who refuse to perform them for ethical reasons, and in some hospitals that are religiously affiliated (Catholic usually) they refuse to do them

It does feel like the beginning of the handmaids tale. How did anyone ever let it get like this

Hospitals are often privately operated, often not even by the insurance companies. So they can have religious influence. There’s a Catholic one near me where the ob/gyn practices within it apparently won’t prescribe contraception. In all other areas it’s a great hospital, and I’ve been told their birth care is amazing, but this basic women’s care is totally non existent. It’s appalling, but not unusual.

I know its not really your point but look for the helpers. Thats what youre supposed to tell dc when theres bad news on the tv.

Yes the helpers are remarkable. These woman giving their time to help other woman are amazing. They were the first thing I noticed and applauded but then the anger set in, they shouldn’t have to be there.

I agree... Handmaid's tale is what if feels like. Women's rights are always pretending to go forwards but the reality is there is no equality and it's unlikely there ever will be...

The thing is, (unfortunately) these latest bans in Georgia etc are the latest icing on the cake and its been a long time coming.

Lots of the southern states have made it near impossible to access abortion and contraception services, by pushing them to close either through laws or direct action, over the last 10 years. Trump repealed parts of the affordable care act (obama care) which means employer funded health insurance (which most ppl have) is now allowed to NOT offer access to certain / any types of contraception due to 'ethical conflict'

Add to this, no standard maternity pay or leave, sky high medical bills for delivery, highest levels of mother and infant mortality in the 'first world' congress trying to make maternal healthcare and birth a pre existing condition (so your insurance wouldn't cove you) and really high child care costs, the appointment of an ultra right wing sexual assaulter to the supreme court (which means abortion law Roe V Wade is likely to be overturned) and you've basically shackled women back to the kitchen sink

Its been a carefully orchestrated slow burn plan which is coming to fruition now. The batshit crazy piece is that the majority % of Americans don't agree with it, but its being pushed through