Looking to Mexico for Alternative to Abortion Clinics
McALLEN — In this Roman Catholic stronghold, where abortion is deeply stigmatized, reproductive health providers tell stories of women going to pharmacies across the border in Mexico, in search of a drug they hope will terminate unwanted pregnancies.
But the providers say that the pharmacies, which are largely unregulated, often fail to give proper instructions for the drug, misoprostol, and that it does not always give the women the result they seek.
“I’m sure it’s always occurred, but we’re noticing it more,” said Kristeena Banda, the director of Whole Woman’s Health in McAllen, one of two Rio ...
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Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
More damage to women c/o the Texas GOP, because their ignorance is more important to them than women's health.
Duane Florschuetz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rigid regulation often stimulates the challenge to get around it in some way. More detrimental when it involves a persons health care.
Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And Perry and Mitt want to further cut back women's healthcare!
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Abortion is not a birth control method. It is an elective procedure that ends in at least one death.
Martha Dunkelberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lori -- if you don't want to get an abortion, by all means you shouldn't have one. Otherwise, stay the heck out of other women's decisions.
Anya Khan
To quote: The woman said cost was the factor behind her decision to try misoprostol instead of visiting a clinic. But she had no regrets.
“If I was put in the exact situation all over again,” she was quoted as saying, “I’d probably do it again.”
If you had to do it again, spend 50 cents on a condom and don't murder your child
Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where else would they go..home of courseer
Samdavis
Stuff it Lori, this is a forum about women having to seek healthcare in Mexico due to actions by a group of bigoted white men. Take your sanctimonious comments over to the TEA Party monthly or wherever it is this kind of stuff is welcome.
TrueTexas
Samdavis, it sounds like you are a arrogant, close-minded person and your rude comments do nothing to promote dialog on important issues.
TrueTexas
So Martha, you are saying that if you don't want to commit murder then don't, but if I want to commit murder then it is ok for me to do so?"
Adele Roberson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuciRSkj9o4&feature=related
Paul Sadler talks to women in Texas. Paul Sadler is running for the US Senator seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchinson. He is a honest, knowledgeable person who cares about what has been happening to women's rights and needs during the last years under Republican mean rule. Think about your future... it is not going to get better with Cruz in Washinton who will continue the discrimination and hate against women. For sure.
Samdavis
True doesn't equal rude True whatever you are. This is an article about women having to go to Mexico. People like you and Lori are what are referred to as "Trolls".
David Spratt
Sounds to me like this is a problem that relates primarily to Illegal Aliens. American Citizens have access to health care through Medicaid and State programs. Most Americans do not go to third world countries to seek health care. Strange how liberals come out in favor of gun control to combat murder by guns committed by criminals , and at the same time condone the murder in the womb of hundreds of thousands of innocent children. After all they are always the ones saying " It's for the children." I guess this only applies to those lucky enough to be born and not aborted first?
Jack Lauren
In response to David Spratt:
- Sounds to me like this is a problem that relates primarily to Illegal Aliens. American Citizens have access to health care through Medicaid and State programs. Most Americans do not go to third world countries to seek health care.
This is not true. It is not a problem that only affects illegal aliens. It is a problem that hurts all women and men. What has happened is that the the GOP has taken it upon themselves to claim that in order to save lives it must make it nearly impossible to provide safe and affordable family planning and abortion services. I find it funny that the far right who says less government is better decides that it is okay to insert themselves into the most private nature of our lives. They want to have less government spending and waste but do just the opposite by using the tax payers money to implement costly and unnecessary procedures that effectively isolate women from getting the health care services and education they need to family plan and have the options to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. And also eventually go on to strain the health care system when it has to provide care that could have been at a lower cost weighing in on the side of prevention. And to say that is only related to aliens is shocking. Before Roe vs Wade in this country, women of all social-economic backgrounds sought abortions. If you were wealthy you could fly to Japan to get it done. If you were poor, a back alley street or a friend. And because now, there is so much interest on shaming, belittling, and creating expensive and unnecessary intrusive measures to make women less able to have this service, women are again looking to outside sources and countries to provide them with an abortion. You want to hear real stories from real women who have had abortions go to 1in3Campaign. And as for your comments about being a liberal. I am neither a liberal nor a conservative. I am for those that favor common sense, not producing lies and sugary cover ups to appease the ultra conservative masses. And in response to Anya Khan.
To quote: The woman said cost was the factor behind her decision to try misoprostol instead of visiting a clinic. But she had no regrets.
“If I was put in the exact situation all over again,” she was quoted as saying, “I’d probably do it again.”
If you had to do it again, spend 50 cents on a condom and don't murder your child- I agree with you she should have used a condom, but what if she did? And what about access to education and family planning? In the case of the state of Texas, if it didn't cut so many established institutions like Planned Parenthood I am sure this woman could have gotten her condom, education on her family planning, and been the better for it. And it is important to point out the culture some of these women grow up in. It is largely male dominated, religious, and against sex-ed. I have worked with low-income and largely immigrant populations for over 6 years, and you wouldn't believe the kind of fear mongering and lack of understating that goes on about sex and condoms that young women have talked about. All they know is they are desperate not to have a baby and have been told so many lies and even manipulated into thinking they are not in control of their bodies or family planning options. Another great cause for the super conservatives, to have uneducated women and to be in control of what they do with their bodies. You want less abortions? You go out there and start helping women take control of their bodies and be empowered to learn about their bodies and their sexual health and you give them opportunities to do that at low cost, without shaming them, because right now people are creating a culture of fear and shame that prevents education and instead induces chaos and this targets all women from rich to poor.
Jack Lauren
Also, I would like to point out that pregnancies are terminated everyday due to some malformation of the fetus. People who have been in that position are fighting for abortion rights too.
https://vimeo.com/38389206