{"id":190293,"date":"2018-11-01T13:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=190293"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:22:52","slug":"abortion-industry-tweets-diy-abortion-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-tweets-diy-abortion-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion industry tweetfest pushes DIY ‘self-managed abortion’ as ‘safe’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A series of well-timed tweets published by movers and shakers within the abortion industry reveal a new focus<\/a> on what has been dubbed “self-managed” abortion. The social media push appears to be coordinated, and reveals that, as Live Action News has previously documented, the push<\/a> for “home use” or “self-managed” abortions has been brewing for quite some time. And, just as the simultaneous tweets appeared, so have several reports<\/a> and media articles on the topic. Historically, the push<\/a> to change laws and expand abortion<\/a> have never occurred in a vacuum.<\/p>\n

The hashtag #selfmanagedabortion and several tweets promoting the concept of “self-managed” abortion suddenly appeared this past week, published by a number of organizations, including The Guttmacher Institute, a former “special affiliate<\/a>” of Planned Parenthood.\u00a0Guttmacher claimed<\/a> in one tweet: “Evidence suggests that most individuals have the skills they need for safe #<\/s>SelfManagedAbortion<\/a>, including assessing eligibility, managing the drug regimen and assessing completion of the procedure.”<\/p>\n

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Guttmacher promotes self managed abortion (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

Until recently, self abortions were often\u00a0portrayed<\/a>\u00a0by abortion advocates as dangerous. Even years after the introduction of medication abortions, the abortion pill<\/a> regimen has claimed several victims. Recent FDA reports indicate that almost two dozen women who obtained pills at medical facilities have\u00a0died<\/a>\u00a0from it, and a thousand have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n