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    spotofluffLauren Evans
    6/23/16 12:13am

    They accept donations

    https://www.womenonweb.org/

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      accordingtospotofluff
      6/23/16 11:28am

      this needs to be the top comment. there’s a documentary about them called “Vessel” that is currently on Netflix. worth watching.

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    SheeshTheseNamesLauren Evans
    6/22/16 10:49pm

    Damn. Religion has a stranglehold on women’s lives all over the world.

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      HildegardBingen2SheeshTheseNames
      6/23/16 12:10am

      That it does. And I love how we won’t hear a peep about this outrageous religious extremism out of the whackos pissing and moaning about Sharia law. This is basically Christian Sharia which fundies are doing their best to bring to the US as well. It’s a fucking nightmare, my heart goes out to these women.

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      MayotonillaHildegardBingen2
      6/23/16 7:37am

      Fundies from the US are trying to make abortion difficult in Mexico. Abortion is only legal in Mexico City and American Christian fundamentalists are trying to use the same tactic can they use here to make it hard to access. It’shard to use those techniques there though since any woman can go to any public hospital at any time and demand an abortion which is how it should be. Yes, Mexico City is ahead of the US when it comes to that part of women's health.

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    Das, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)germanLauren Evans
    6/22/16 10:18pm

    If the numbers that Women on Web have seen low, it’s not because there isn’t a demand... I would imagine it’s likely that there are a LOT of rural and poor women (the women who are disproportionately affected by Zika) who simply don’t have Internet access. Zika is an economic issue as well as a gender, health, and reproductive rights issue.

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      WubadubdubLauren Evans
      6/22/16 10:23pm

      It’s a travesty that women in those countries can’t get legal abortions in the first place, let alone them not allowing women infected with Zika to get them.

      Are any affected countries pushing for abortion reform in the face of this?

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        Das, evil rabbit and obnoxious (half)germanWubadubdub
        6/22/16 10:29pm

        I believe that the Health Minister of El Salvador made some comments about how the country needed to “reconsider” its total abortion ban, but so many Latin American countries are so heavily influenced by either the Vatican or the various evangelical churches that have popped up there that I doubt anything substantial will happen... Wealthy women will be able to get abortions as they’ve always been able to, but poor women will continue to suffer.

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        DAMitsDevonWubadubdub
        6/22/16 11:17pm

        According to a friend I have from Brazil (and I’m assuming he knows more about what’s going on there than I do), some politicians are pushing to get microcephaly to be considered “incompatible with life,” similar to how anencephaly is categorized so that women infected with Zika, or at least women who are pregnant with fetuses that have microcephaly will be legally able to get abortion. However, he doesn’t think it’s the best way to go about it since the reasoning itself isn’t very pro-choice and could be considered ableist.

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