The Abortion_Squad’s Ariella Messing (aBigMess) on fighting disinformation in a post-Roe world, the unending challenges of giving abortion advice to strangers online, and the trade-offs of self-managing abortion. A conversation with irin
, or OARS. Its 25 volunteers — researchers, abortion doulas, clinic staff, movement lawyers, and more — help run the abortion sub-Reddit and are on call around the clock to root out anti-choice trolls and make sure every question gets a good answer, whether from OARS or someone else.
Probably 50 or 60 people post a question on r/abortion every day. Within an hour, each post has thousands of views. We get around 800,000 page views a month. Our priority is to make sure we write our answers clearly so someone reading can take action based on what they learned on the sub-Reddit without feeling the need to post themselves. But many people don’t like to search the sub-Reddit for an answer; they’d rather ask their own question. That means many questions get asked repeatedly.
I spoke to someone last week who was under the impression that you could be prosecuted for leaving their state to get an abortion. With all these news stories and all these tweets that are fearmongering, at the end of the day, it’s so important to always clarify, “This law is not in effect,” or “It is legal to get an abortion in another state.”
I’m always kind of sad when people who clearly live in California are commenting, “Just ask about Medi-Cal. They’ll pay for it.” If only. Where the person who’s asking lives, that is not happening. People are just coming to learn how messed up things are because they’re having this experience. So we have to explain, “Well, your state, California, decides to cover abortion through Medi-Cal, but other states have opted not to.
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