Creeping Criminalization: Ohio’s Six-Week Ban and Self-Managed Abortion Security

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of miscarriages and pregnancy loss.

Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams address the particulars of Ohio's current six-week abortion ban, discussing how pregnancy durations are calculated and what best practices can help keep self-managed abortion decisions private. Kelley and Terry spend time diving into a recent study from friends at If/When/How examining the last two decades of abortion criminalization in the U.S., with an eye toward what past lessons can teach us about the future of abortion access.

Links to discussed content:

• 6 Ways to Know If You’re Pregnant Within 6 Weeks of Conception: www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sex/how-to-tell-if-pregnant-before-six-weeks#why-it-matters
• "Self-Managed Abortion Is Not Illegal in Most of the Country, but Criminalization Happens Anyway," by Laura Huss from If/When/How: www.ifwhenhow.org/abortion-criminalization-new-research/
• Decriminalizing Self-Managed and Supported Non-Clinical Abortion Research from If/When/How: www.ifwhenhow.org/resources/self-care-criminalized-preliminary-findings/
• Abortion Bans are Against My Religion and other Pro-Faith/Pro-Choice swag: abortionbansareagainstmyreligion.com
• Self-Managed Abortion in Good Faith trainings: www.faithchoiceohio.org/self-managed-abortion-in-good-faith-training

Music by Korbin Jones