Hillary - Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states.

[Swede]

What a fine President she would have been.

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states.

Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people.

No court or politician can change either of those realities.

— Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T21:17:04.973Z

[Autumn]

1. Not people Hillary. Women. Women have always had and will always have

abortions in all 50 states.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Are women not people? People who aren't women also get abortions.

[Autumn]

4. Only women are impacted by abortion or the lack of safe abortions. It's not a people thing.

To quote John Lennon. "Only women bleed."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. I can assure you men and nonbinary people also get abortions.

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ETA: also, "Only Women Bleed" was an Alice Cooper song about intimate partner violence

[Autumn]

6. I can assure you no man has ever had an abortion. Men may be a bystander in a woman's abortion

but no male has ever had an abortion.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Having helped men and nonbinary people get abortions, I feel sorry that you live in such a narrow world.

[dave99]

27. so the man had a uterus ?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

45. some men do

[Zelda_Orchid]

49. The only sexual organ that matters for gender identity is the brain.

[questionseverything]

26. Only human beings with x only chromosomes can create and carry babies

No person with a Y chromosome will ever need an abortion

[WhiskeyGrinder]

52. Not true. Pregnancy is possible in women with Swyer syndrome (46,XY)

[LearnedHand]

20. Categorically untrue

Trans men and nonbinary people also get abortions. You’re close to violating DU’s anti-bigotry rules here.

[edhopper]

7. Do you think anyone reading this

doesn't know exactly what she is saying?

[LexVegas]

11. JK Rowling? nt

[wolfie001]

48. Egads, I hate that harridan

[hamsterjill]

14. This is why Democrats don't win.

Because there's always someone who has to fight over the miniscule details. Pick apart every letter and syllable. We can't ever just unite behind a sentiment.

Did you not KNOW what she meant? The English language is not always perfect.

I apologize, but I am very protective of Hillary. I truly believe she is the smartest person on the planet.

[oasis]

30. I'mWithYou+your statement. I'mWithHer(Hillary)

all day long.

[QueerDuck]

17. Oh, ffs. 🙄

[Cirsium]

34. Women are people

Not sure what your point is.

[QueerDuck]

41. I know.

[Cirsium]

42. I'm hiring a brass band...

...and organizing a parade. Wonder of all wonders, QueerDuck and I agree on something.

[lapucelle]

43. Oh dear...

Diversity in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Abortion Patients

[The Guttmacher Institute's] most recent Abortion Patient Survey provides data on a national sample of 6,674 individuals who obtained an abortion at 56 health care facilities across the United States in 2021–2022 (see Methodology below for more details).

Some 1.1% of respondents reported their gender identity as something other than woman or female: 0.7% identified as gender nonbinary, 0.3% as transgender male and 0.1% as something else. Sixteen percent of respondents reported their sexuality as nonheterosexual: 12% said they were bisexual, 2% pansexual, 0.3% lesbian and 2% something else. Most respondents who identified as something other than cisgender also reported that they were not heterosexual.

Applying the overall proportion of respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ to the number of total abortions nationally in 2020 indicates that as many as 149,000 individuals who obtained abortion care that year identified as something other than cisgender and/or heterosexual.

https://www.guttmacher.org/2023/06/many-16-people-having-abortions-do-not-identify-heterosexual-women

[BootinUp]

2. The GOP doesn't believe in facts. nt

[Quiet Em]

8. My Favorite Abortion

This week, U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill asked an understandably confused American University scholar to name her “favorite type of abortion.” Law professor Jessica Waters went before a House Judiciary subcommittee to talk about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act; instead, she was questioned by a visibly pleased with himself Texas lawmaker who clearly crafted his question to be a viral social media moment.

When you see Rep. Gill’s shit-eating grin, you’ll know exactly who he is.

Since Rep. Gill is so interested in our favorite types of abortions, I thought I’d share a few of mine.

My favorite type of abortion is the one that prevents a raped ten-year-old from breaking her pelvis in childbirth.

I also like abortions that keep women from carrying dead fetuses for weeks on end, which is what happened to Marlena Stell in Rep. Gill’s home state of Texas.

My favorite abortions are the kind that stop women from going septic, or prevent 28-year-olds from losing both of their fallopian tubes.

Another favorite? The abortion that means a Texas 21-year-old won’t be forced to carry a fetus developing without a head.

I like the abortion that means a pregnant mother of five with cervical cancer doesn’t have to beg a hospital panel for chemotherapy.

I like the abortion that doesn’t force a woman to travel far from home when faced with a fatal fetal abnormality.

I really like the abortion that stops patients from having to plead for help in videos made in hospital parking lots.

more favorites at link https://jessica.substack.com/p/my-favorite-abortion

[Buckeyeblue]

21. I think the answer is easier

No one likes abortion. It means something went wrong. Regardless of the reason, many people need to have an abortion, which is why it needs to be legal and accessible.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. People do, in fact, like abortion. It's a solution that works for them.

[Phoenix61]

28. I don't know a single woman who is happy to have

had the procedure. Yes, they are happy they had the option but they would much rather have not gotten pregnant in the first place.

[electron_blue]

35. this is such an ignorant statement

[Phoenix61]

36. How so? nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

46. I know many people who were happy to get an abortion and did not find it disruptive.

[Hope22]

38. Yes!!

All of these! People can be so ignorant! But let it happen to someone they loves and oh my!

[niyad]

10. Thank you Madame President.

[appleannie1]

12. I am in my eighties. Abortion was never legal when I was single and birth control was hit or miss.

I honestly believe there were a lot more abortions back then than there have been since abortion was made legal. The main problem besides not being safe is illegal abortions cost cash, a commodity poorer people don't have. That forces women without money to use self-inflicted methods. The jackasses in the GOP are too dumb to realize what a can of worms they just opened but they don't give a crap. Lording over women makes them feel manly.

[FakeNoose]

13. Also young women who needed abortions and couldn't get them safely

There were no pills then, they had to undergo surgery with unsafe conditions. It was a terrible time before the Roe v. Wade ruling, and many girls/women died as a result.

[mopinko]

19. and public hospitals had abortion wards,

filled w women who developed sepsis, or who’s abortion was incomplete, and needed a d&c.
didnt have them in private hospitals, esp catholic 1s.
the 1 in cook co hospital was notorious for the stench. i’m sure most were.

[ShazzieB]

23. Allow me to recommend a book about that!

The title is The Worst of Times, and the author is Patricia G. Miller. It was published in 1993 and has been out of print for a while now, but there are still used copies floating around that can easily be found online wherever used books are sold. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about what abortion was like in this country pre-Roe.

This book is not for the faint of heart; there are stories in it that will curl your hair. But this information has never been more vitally important than it is now.

From the jacket blurb:

All the oceans of verbiage and tons of newsprint on the subject of abortion boil down to one simple question. That question is not whether we will have abortions but what kind of abortions we will have. It is a question framed in stark human terms in Patricia Miller's The Worst of Times, which introduces us to dozens of ordinary Americans who have had firsthand experience with illegal abortion: women who survived the pain, humiliation, shame, and terror; motherless children of women who died; doctors who treated the terrible consequences of botched abortions; the abortionists themselves - barbers, midwives, mechanics; and the cops, coroners, and DAs charged with upholding the law. Abortion is a complex issue, but it is not an issue that exists abstractly in the eyes of ethicists or theologians. It is an issue that exists in the flesh - in the flesh of women with complicated lives and large responsibilities and a whole web of personal, familial, and moral concerns. As The Worst of Times makes powerfully and painfully clear, it is a question that women must be allowed to answer for themselves.

[mopinko]

24. i'm old enough to remember those days. fortunately never had to face that myself, but

had friends who did. my small town was lucky, there was an obgyn who did them ‘on the qt’. (everyone knew). but he was very spendy.
it was legal in wis in those days and there was a weekly bus to a clinic over the state line. had a friend who did that, and bled like crazy when she got back. they did a crappy job, and she cd do nothing but cross her fingers and hope. the public hospital probably did more than they admitted. you couldnt get a d&c for a miscarriage at the catholic hospital unless u were married. even then, they grilled u while u bled.

i remember very well when the very catholic president of the cook co board woke up 1 morning and decreed there wd b no more abortions at cook co hospital, even for botched abortions. they closed down the ward. have often wondered how many women died cuz of that man.

i knew more than a few girls and women who wd have ended pregnancies if it werent for the stigma, including my sister. they kicked her out of catholic school as soon as they found out she was pg. 🙄🙄🙄
i went to the same school and had a nun who hated ME for it.

[FakeNoose]

37. Oh my goodness! This is bringing back horrible memories

I grew up in Saint Louis - not too far from Chicago. (I live in Pittsburgh now, but my early days were spent in St. Louis.) I hadn't come of age, so we younger girls were told NOTHING! Until we found out too late and some of us were stuck. Others were lucky and there was a complete unfairness and inequity to the whole entire thing. If the young woman's family was rich, they had a way to "save" their daughters.

It was an awful time and we can NEVER GO BACK!!! We can't allow the younger generation to endure this!

[mopinko]

39. i find myself always pointed out that the men who make these laws

will never b stuck w raising a child they dont want. their wives, mistresses and daughters will always b able to get abortions.
always.

[OMGWTF]

29. Even the Bush family was pro-choice after a family friend died from a back-alley abortion.

More proof that Rethuglicans DGAF about anyone else until it affects them.

[Ilsa]

15. I've heard that abortions are on the increase

over the last ten years. I'm guessing that women can't get access to birth control because of closed clinics. I haven't checked to see if rape statistics are up. And I suspect the unsteady economy has people wondering if they shod delay having kids or simply avoid it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. Part of it's the economy, but it's more because the abortion pill protocol makes it easier to end a pregnancy,

especially in places where it's hard to get to a clinic.

[oldsoldierfadingfast]

44. Kitchen tables ...

clothes hangers, canning tongs, forks, no sterility, hemorrhage. After that, we got them in the ER and if the were lucky, their lives were saved.
So many were NOT lucky.

[efhmc]

18. But this is not about reality, it is about the control of women. Other methods have been used and have killed women.

[dlk]

25. As usual, Hillary is right

Unfortunately, it won’t deter Republicans from their endless efforts to punish women for getting pregnant.

[magicarpet]

31. We can do so much better than rusty coathanger abortions,..and then sepsis,....

.... but that is where the Fascists want for our society to be. Putting women in danger ? Oh well,... just have the baby as God planned. Family Planning is God's job,... but not woman's and not man's.

[mopinko]

40. i'm so grateful for these meds.

w/o medication abortions, we’d b in the middle of an absolute bloodbath.

[karynnj]

33. I am stunned by some responses.

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Yesterday when I saw Hillary's post, I read it to my husband because I loved how accurate, concise and on target those 2 short sentences were.

Neither of us even remotely questioned the use of the word people. This is a winning message. Any one who came of age before Roe v Wade understands the second even if we didn't know anyone harmed by it.

[Cha]

47. Mahalo to you and Hillary, Swede.

Hillary would have been a brilliant president. Too bad there was so much gaslighting hate against her by 3rd party liars.

[TomWilm]

50. Before modern times, and now again, women will have to "Call Jane"

Movie from 2022: "Call Jane" .
A housewife is faced with a devastating diagnosis when her second pregnancy leads to a life-threatening condition. She has nowhere to turn until she meets a group of women who will risk everything to help.

[OldBaldy1701E]

51. Yes, but only those who are in the upmost echelon should be able to have one.

The rest have to keep the machine running and that takes bodies!



Besides, how dare you lowly scum think that you can do whatever the rich do! Who the hell do you think you are?

[dlk]

53. Hillary intentionally used the word people, likely because of Republicans concerted efforts to dehumanize women

We are living the nightmare of revenge of the women-haters. Maternal mortality is up. Women are dying.

How does nitpicking verbiage help anyone?