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Originally Posted by Gatordash
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I think most Planned Parenthoods or women's clinics aimed at this sort of thing are walk-in based but maybe I'm wrong, so I don't really get the same day rant you just went on.
Anyways, women can bleed while they're pregnant. Some women bleed multiple times when they are pregnant and the baby is still fine. So in your scenario, a woman might think that bleeding is her regular period and think she is not pregnant.
Pee on a stick pregnancy tests are largely accurate but not always. They are like 85% accurate I think? But being wrong 15 out of 100 times is not insignificant. It takes about 5-7 days to start producing gonadtropin levels after fertilization that can be seen on the test. Also, sperm can live like up to a week in a fallopian tube, so we are already at two weeks. Even so, you would need to then get an appointment with an OBGYN to have bloodwork done to confirm if you are pregnant or not. I guess it would depend on your state, but my state your are looking at 4-6 weeks to get that appointment. Anyways you can see that even if you are a woman on top of your shit, you can easily still get pregnant and be unable to get an abortion in Texas, even if its a same day clinic.
So politicians are either largely uniformed, or know what they are doing and know they are basically outlawing abortion.
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The planned parenthood site said there are clinics that do abortions on the same day you get a positive pregnancy test. If you hit the back button and go back one page I pasted a pic, or you can read the page yourself here
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/le...ion-procedures
It definitely does not take 4-6 weeks in my state to make an appointment with a doctor or to schedule bloodwork. Whenever I’ve requested bloodwork from my PCP (and in my state you can get in to see your pcp usually within a few days to at most a week). I was given the address of a lab that I went to that same day
The reason politicians are picking those times (IM GUESSING) is due to the development of the embryo and trying to make a estimated guess at what constitutes life
I guarantee you it’s not an effort to make abortion illegal and even if it was, abortion being illegal in one area does not = the end of abortion. It means people will travel farther or it will just drive the services underground, probably at a cost of quality and safety, which is one of the more compelling arguments I’ve heard against attempting to criminalize them but one no pro-choicer has presented here yet