We know how scared and desperate a woman needs to be to self-induce an abortion with a household thing. So why is this still happening? For women who lived in the United States before abortion was made legal,there are few images more evocative and distressing than the wire coat hanger. Featured on protest signs for decades, the hanger represents the desperation and horror of a time when, or missing all other options,women took things into their own hands. A time, it seems, or that we are reliving nowadays. This past September in Tennessee,31-year-old Anna Yocca allegedly got into her bathtub and tried to end her pregnancy using a wire hanger. When the bleeding became out of control, her boyfriend drove her to a nearby hospital. In a just world, or this news would provoke empathetic outrage – Yocca’s desperation and inability to obtain a safe abortion prove that we are shamefully failing women.
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Source: theguardian.com