{"id":181544,"date":"2016-05-25T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/25\/chemical-coat-hangers\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:38:00","slug":"chemical-coat-hangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/25\/chemical-coat-hangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Coat Hangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Texas, women are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-abortion-usa-texas-doityourself-idUSKCN0YF1BC\">going to Mexico to buy chemicals to induce n abortion<\/a>, because it is next to impossible to get a safe abortion in Texas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Susanna was young, single, broke and pregnant in southern Texas where, thanks to the state&#8217;s strict laws, her chances of getting a surgical abortion at a clinic were slim to none.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">So she did what an estimated 100,000 women or more in Texas have done &#8211; had a self-induced abortion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">With the help of a friend, some online instructions and quick dash across the Mexican border for some pills, she addressed the issue of unwanted pregnancy in a state where women are finding abortion services too expensive and too far away.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Restrictive laws took hold in Texas in 2013, forcing so many clinic closings that fewer than 20 remain to serve 5.4 million women of reproductive age.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Texas legislature sees <i>The Handmaiden&#8217;s Tale<\/i> as a blueprint for the file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Texas, women are going to Mexico to buy chemicals to induce n abortion, because it is next to impossible to get a safe abortion in Texas: Susanna was young, single, broke and pregnant in southern Texas where, thanks to the state&#8217;s strict laws, her chances of getting a surgical abortion at a clinic were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,971,969,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-civil-rights","category-evil","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}