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Was the "coat hanger in the back alley's" real for abortion at that time? Did it actually have some fact to it? (lemmy.world)
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[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe for the uneducated folks, but the anti abortion propaganda really spreads that abortion is basically just as bad as that. They make it seem like child murder, so to them it's like arguing that if you don't allow child murder, people will murder children.

I think the core is still that we need to educate people what abortion is, how their propaganda is wrong and also that these laws are causing "pro-life" women to risk death now due to dangerous pregnancies.