it's easier to get an abortion if you're a dog than if you're a woman.
welcome to texas.
You know it’s bad when your pet can get an abortion, but you can’t.
This week, we heard the testimony of the four women suing Texas over its barbaric anti-abortion laws that they claim, put their lives in danger. Ashley Brandt, Lauren Hall, Lauren Miller, Anna Zargarian and Amanda Zurawski are the first to bring a legal challenge on behalf of women being blocked from accessing the right to abortion since Roe was overturned last summer. One of the quotes from the testimony that my friend Cindi Leive shared with me, hasn’t stopped haunting me.
"How is it that in Texas I can literally get an abortion for my dog and not for myself?"
-Ashley Brandt
Brandt, who was already a mother, and was ecstatic when she found out she was pregnant with twins last May, was denied the right to abort one one of her twins, to save the life of the other. “We went from pure excitement to deep sadness and terror,” she said in an interview. “This was the most traumatizing experience of my life and one that was made so much worse, unnecessarily, because of these illogical and dangerous laws.” Texas, like other anti-abortion states, makes no exceptions for lethal abnormalities, and forces women to carry a pregnancy to term, even if the fetus has virtually no chance of staying alive. Cruelty is the point.
The fact that Republicans have kept abortion legal for dogs, but not for women, is made worse by the fact that it’s the same medicine. And it’s really cheap for your pup! A dose of misoprostol will terminate a pregnancy in a dog, and a woman, but only one of them is allowed to do it.
This is an actual PDF that my friend and OBGYN Dr. Jenn Lincoln sent to me.
In other words, bitches have more rights (and options) than women.
And if you think I’m nuts and that women won’t ever be so desperate that they’ll go to the vet to access abortion, I have news for you. It’s already happening! Back in 2009, so many girls in Wisconsin were trying to abortions this way that The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) issued an advisory about it on their website because it was “apparently a way for girls to end unwanted pregnancies without the cost of an abortion or having their parents find out.” The fact that teenage girls had to go to these unsafe lengths just to get a procedure that was legal at the time by the way, tells us everything about America. No civilized country treats dogs better than it treats girls.
And given that Walgreens has announced this week that it will be blocking women from buying abortion pills even in states where it’s legal, it’s not like access is getting better, even for women in blue states.
While I want to tell you to only take abortion pills if it’s under the supervision of a medical professional, and want to warn you that it’s safer to get pills through Aid Access, Plan C, Hey Jane or through mail-forwarding with Mayday, I also know that for poor and marginalized women, there are still too many barriers and obstacles so I’ll never judge a woman for how she finds a way to get an abortion in a country that will do anything in its power to stop her. Laws that treat women like dogs (or in this case, worse) don’t deserve to be obeyed. Women have always found creative ways to get abortions and will continue to do so. Bitches get shit done.