– I don’t know what 78-year-old men think abortion is, but it’s not something only women do. – It’s an incident that makes life turn upside down. news meets Latvian-American Dita Gruze at the veterans’ monument in one of Pennsylvania’s large, beautiful national parks. She and her husband Brian used to come here often, for picnics or hiking or comet watching, before they had their son. Once upon a time, Dita and Brian Gruze had three golden retrievers. They got to run in this national park, which stretches over a large area in eastern Pennsylvania. Photo: ISMAIL BURAK AKKAN / news – He is a really funny and happy two-and-a-half-year-old who speaks Latvian and English and is also learning Spanish, says the mother. – He loves broken technology gadgets, such as old phones, cables and monitors. I always have to hide my work hard drives. Becoming parents is something they have wanted for a long time. But the road here has been long. Here Brian goes with their son on Halloween. Gruze-Evarts says she no longer talks to her neighbors about politics. She hears that others have received death threats from people who disagree. Photo: Privat A deep sorrow Gruze also became pregnant a few years earlier. Then the unthinkable happened. In the twelfth week, the doctors discovered that the fetus’s skull had not closed. Therefore, the baby would not survive the birth either. Because they lived in a state where abortion was legal, she could choose to terminate the pregnancy. This is not the case everywhere in the United States. Gruze says that a local politician in her area has received death threats for supporting the Democrats. She herself did not dare to put Harris signs in the garden, in case people came to tear them down. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news – If I didn’t have access to an abortion, I would have had to wait until the baby died inside me or have given birth to a child who would have died immediately afterwards, says Gruze. – It is physical and emotional abuse of an already deeply grieving mother. That’s what these pro-lifers don’t understand. Far more people are ordering abortion pills This year’s presidential election has been described as fateful for abortion rights in the United States. On Tuesday, Donald Trump won, and several people report increased demand for abortion pills in the hours afterwards. According to The Guardian, the leading postal supplier of abortion pills in the US received over 5,000 orders within 12 hours of Trump’s election victory. In a typical month, they, Aid Access, receive approximately 9,000 orders. ABORTION: Orders for abortion pills have increased considerably in the United States in recent years. Photo: Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters The Plan C service provides information on how to obtain abortion pills by mail throughout the United States. The day after the election, traffic on their websites increased by 625 percent. Then they also had over 80,000 visitors to the page, compared with around 4,000 the days before the election, Plan C informs news. Restrictions The constitutional right to free abortion disappeared in 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe v. Wade ruling, which had ensured free abortion since 1973. Now it is up to each individual state to decide what kind of abortion laws they want. On the ballot in the presidential election, voters in ten states could also vote directly on abortion legislation. Seven of them are now receiving more liberal changes in the legislation. These were the results: AP Missouri The state had one of the country’s strictest abortion laws with a ban on abortion. There were exceptions for medical crises, but not for rape and incest. However, voters voted for an amendment to the constitution that allows abortion until the fetus is viable. 52 percent voted in favor. AFP Arizona Voters voted on a constitutional amendment that guaranteed abortion until the fetus is viable. It is an extension from the current abortion limit of 15 weeks. 62 percent voted for the change. AP FloridaFlorida voted to extend the right to abortion until the fetus is viable or later if the mother’s health was at risk. 57 percent voted in favor, but an amendment required 60 percent. Florida’s abortion limit of six weeks will thus remain in place. AP Maryland voters voted in favor of an amendment to the constitution that would guarantee the “right to reproductive freedom” which would also include free abortion. 74 percent voted in favor, and abortion remains legal. AP New York In New York, an amendment prohibiting discrimination on the basis of “pregnancy outcome” was passed. It means that women should not be discriminated against because of what happened to their pregnancy. AP Nebraska Voters voted on several proposals. Abortion until viability was voted down by 51 percent against 49. Today’s abortion limit of 12 weeks, with the exception of rape, incest, and danger to the mother’s life, remained in place. AP South Dakota Voters voted on a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion. 60 percent voted against, and abortion remains illegal in the state. AP Montana In Montana, a vote was taken on an amendment to the constitution that ensures abortion rights. The change maintains the current limit of free abortion until the fetus is viable. 57 percent voted in favor. AFP Colorado Voters voted for an amendment to the constitution that will ensure the right to abortion. 62 percent voted in favor of the amendment, which would maintain current law in Colorado, where abortion remains legal. AP Nevada Voters in Nevada voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortion rights. However, it must be approved again in 2026 for the change to take effect. Nevada has free abortions up to week 24. After the change in the law, the use of abortion pills, especially sent by post, has seen a large increase in the USA. In the spring of 2023, the Supreme Court decided that the states could decide whether abortion pills should still be available. Medical abortion In medical abortion, abortion pills, also known as Mifepristone, are used to affect the uterus so that the pregnancy stops. Normally, two pills with slightly different active ingredients are used. The active substance in the first tablet means that the uterus no longer responds to the body’s own pregnancy-preserving hormone, progesterone. The second tablet causes the uterus to contract. Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, was developed in the 1980s. In Norway, this tablet is also used, and here nine out of ten abortions are carried out medically. The drug has been used by over 5 million women in the USA since it was approved in 2000. Source: Helsenorge, NHI and news Abortion as an election campaign issue Kamala Harris devoted much of the election campaign to the abortion issue. During an election campaign event in Arizona this spring, she warned of what would happen if Trump won the election. She spoke shortly after the state’s highest court had given the green light to reintroduce an abortion law from 1864. – Here is what a new Trump period will be like: more bans, more suffering and less freedom. Just like he did in Arizona, he basically wants to take the United States back to the 1800s, Harris told voters in Tucson. VOTED NO: Voters in several states could also vote on abortion legislation on the ballot. The state of Florida, on the other hand, voted no to constitutionalize the right to abortion. Photo: OCTAVIO JONES / AFP On the other hand, Trump has not focused as much on the abortion issue this election campaign. However, he has stated that he will not sign a national ban on abortion, and believes that the states themselves should be able to make their own laws. – Everyone knows that under no circumstances will I support a federal abortion ban, and in fact I will veto it. It is up to the states to decide based on what the voters want, Trump wrote on social media in October. Ahead of the presidential election in 2016, he said that women who wanted to have an abortion would have to be punished. LEGISLATION: On January 20, Donald Trump is inaugurated as president. He wants the states themselves to decide on abortion legislation, according to a statement from October. Photo: Brian Snyder / Reuters Up to each individual state More than ten states have chosen to make abortion illegal in almost all cases. Some have exceptions for women who have been raped, but not all. The states of Florida, South Dakota, Iowa and Georgia prohibit abortion after about six weeks. Despite the bans, the number of abortions has increased slightly, partly because more people are using abortion pills, and there are organized networks that help women travel to places where abortion is permitted. Gruze and his family are working on a long-term plan to move out of the United States. For a long time, Gruze and her husband looked at opportunities to move to Latvia sometime in the future. Now it doesn’t feel safe there either, she says, because of the war in Ukraine. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news Due to the war in Ukraine, Gruze does not feel that Latvia is an option anymore, but the family is sure that they want out of the USA. They have bought a plot of land in Nova Scotia, Canada, which is ready the day they need it. – I want my son to be happy. I want him to be safe. I want him to grow up in a place that doesn’t have regular school shootings, says Gruze. – So for us personally, it is a good thing that has come out of Trump’s victory. It motivates us to pay off the loans we have left and go somewhere else to start a new life. Gruze dreams of a future close to nature, and preferably mountains. This is the plot of land she and her husband have bought in Nova Scotia, Canada. Photo: PRIVATE Published 09.11.2024, at 22.32
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