This month, we want to address how legislation banning abortion as soon as fetal cardiac activity can be detected, aka “heartbeat” bills, are perpetuated by a lack of understanding surrounding fetal development, and harms patients by stigmatizing a personal and necessary decision. Dangerous and misleading information spread by anti-abortion activists has made it difficult for patients […]
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Post Abortion Syndrome Myth
Some people may experience complex emotions when making the decision to have an abortion, and those emotions can sometimes become amplified when hearing inaccurate information designed to scare us out of our decision. Abortion providers are already required to state embellished physical risks of abortion to patients by law, but the anti-abortion community has long […]
We Stand With You
Austin Women’s Health Center stands with the millions of Black and brown people around the world who have been spurred by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis to demand an end to all police violence and the extrajudicial murders of Black people. We have been appalled by the repeated (and endless) use of violence […]