Hiieee thanks for all the voting info! A reminder that many of us who are registered voters in the US, and our bodies are in the US, also need absentee ballots to vote -- for example I'm a clinician disabled by longcovid, unable to provide clinical care these past four years, and also too disabled to go to a polling place. *Especially a polling place that is indoors and mask-optional while the pandemic rages on and continues killing and permanently disabling people.* Sigh. So, know that you too have the option to protect yourself from covid and all the other viral scaries (a clinical term!), and also cast your vote - one of many ways to participate in making a better world.
Also... thank you soooo much for sharing the data on the ripple effects of strict aborton laws. I studied that, and also what happens when aborton law is expanded, in grad school - it is NOT BORING. Another, less recent but wider-range, resource is the Turnaway Study -- studying longterm impacts on people who are unable to access the abortion care they seek (for whatever reason - lack of providers, gestational age limits). Note though that the author of that study at the time kept saying "women" when describing who might seek or access abortions; she knows now that it's not only women but the language in the original study doesn't reflect that. Link: https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study
Thanks Dani, I appreciate you and the resources and insights you share!
Hiieee thanks for all the voting info! A reminder that many of us who are registered voters in the US, and our bodies are in the US, also need absentee ballots to vote -- for example I'm a clinician disabled by longcovid, unable to provide clinical care these past four years, and also too disabled to go to a polling place. *Especially a polling place that is indoors and mask-optional while the pandemic rages on and continues killing and permanently disabling people.* Sigh. So, know that you too have the option to protect yourself from covid and all the other viral scaries (a clinical term!), and also cast your vote - one of many ways to participate in making a better world.
Also... thank you soooo much for sharing the data on the ripple effects of strict aborton laws. I studied that, and also what happens when aborton law is expanded, in grad school - it is NOT BORING. Another, less recent but wider-range, resource is the Turnaway Study -- studying longterm impacts on people who are unable to access the abortion care they seek (for whatever reason - lack of providers, gestational age limits). Note though that the author of that study at the time kept saying "women" when describing who might seek or access abortions; she knows now that it's not only women but the language in the original study doesn't reflect that. Link: https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study
Thanks Dani, I appreciate you and the resources and insights you share!