Midterm Intervention - Christopher Cruz

4th poster variant

1st poster variant

    I have been activated to participate in bring awareness of the importance of Abortion Rights. It is a prominent issue that is commonly being talked about as it affects all women throughout the United States. I know some family who live in abortion banned states worried and stress about access to abortions if the case arises. Abortion Rights can’t be talked about unless we invest our understanding of abortion itself. Abortion is multifaceted, something which abortion bans in various states do not account for. These states don’t account for the type of abortions, whether early, late, or spontaneous. Furthermore, they may not account and recognize the effects of restricting abortion pills. Interestingly enough, 55.3% of abortions are medical abortions while 35.5% were surgical abortions. (Ramer) According to “Unsafe Abortion: Unnecessary Maternal Mortality” Around 68,000 woman die from unsafe abortion yearly which 5 million who will suffer from long-term health issues from surviving the abortion. (Haddad and Nour)

This highlights and possibly foreshadows at a problem that could potentially happen to woman in the U.S. Reason from not being anywhere near the closest abortion ban free state to not enough money will only further this issue. This goes back to how important abortions are and from it, abortion itself is.

    

Total Abortion Ban States (no exceptions to rape or incest)

• Alabama 
• Arkansas 
• Indiana 
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Oklahoma
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas

Near-total Ban States

• Idaho: Restricted to only prevent woman’s death or substantial & irreversible major bodily function impairment or rape/incest.
• West Virginia: Restricts the sale of abortion pills.
• Mississippi: to only prevent woman’s death or result of rape

 Restriction or Bans on abortion after certain Gestational Periods (May be due to the Hyde Restriction)

6 weeks (when cardiac activity is detected in the embryo:

• Florida
• Georgia
• South Carolina

After 12 weeks:

• Nebraska
• North Carolina

After 15 weeks:

• Arizona

After 18 weeks:

• Utah

After 20 weeks:

• Iowa

My intervention will be a various informational poster that includes facts and statistics about abortions. These poster will be pinned to the bulletin board throughout the campus so more people see it. It will also  include a QR code to google form where participants will be ask if they did or not know any of this knowledge and how do they feel after reading the facts. The google is still a work in progress.