Tens of thousands of women forced to travel out of state for abortion care after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022

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9. In the '50s and early '60s I wasn't a teen but I was old enough to listen to my mom talk with her friends

I distinctly understood that “abortion” was an illegal thing no one would talk about in a group (I read TIME magazine early) much less in front of a wide-eyed kid — but they did talk about their health issues, and one of those was miscarriages, and another was the possibility of tumors and whether they were benign or not.

As a consequence, I knew what a D&C was and what it was for. It was not an abortion. I knew from my mother’s experiences (I am the oldest of my sibs) that a miscarriage might be here and gone, or it might be fatal if untreated. Doctors and hospitals DID commonly use the D&C procedure to clean out the remains of a miscarriage.

And now, in 2025, red state legislatures have made that impossible. Because in their diseased minds a D&C is an abortion. That’s the kind of thing I am talking about.