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  2022-06-25

  COVID deaths and abortion numbers

  This is a tweet from eevee. This person is saying that those who refuse to wear masks are helping create as many COVID deaths as there are abortions per year. It is meant to point out the hypocrisy of people claiming "life is sacred" while being flagrant about wearing masks, which they argue is not pro-life.
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  2022-06-25

  "Pro-life" and COVID death

  This is a tweet from BillHMcCarty. This person is criticizing the amount of COVID deaths that are happening is states that are looking to outlaw or heavily restrict abortion.
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  2022-06-25

  Calling people out

  This is a tweet from KingsleyCortes. She is criticizing the general Democrat talking points with things like abortion and gay marriage by pointing out that many Democrats were in favor of people getting the vaccines. The vaccines were not voluntary in some cases, where people were coerced into getting them at the risk of losing their jobs. People have many different takes on these hot button issues, but this is the best way I can explain it.
• 2022-06-25

  The same sort of people

  This is a tweet from Connybub. This person is pointing out the hypocrisy of the pro-choice crowd and their use of "my body, my choice" while many in this same group also wanted people to take the vaccines against their own will. This is obviously a very controversial topic, and there have been people using different aspects of the vaccine debates and the abortion debates to show which side in the correct one.
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  2022-05-03

  COVID protocol and abortion

  This is a tweet from CJ_isnowblue regarding the leaked opinion from the Supreme Court on abortion. She is criticizing the way Republicans have protested for their rights to bodily autonomy on things such as mask mandates and vaccines, while wanting to restrict the bodily rights women have. Throughout the pandemic, the abortion debate has come up a time or two due to the "my body, my choice" rhetoric being used by those against masks and vaccines. Prior to this, it was mainly used for discussions on abortion, but now the two subjects are getting linked in public discourse.
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  2022-05-02

  You can't co-opt "my body, my choice"

  This is a tweet from Anna Akana regarding the leaked opinion draft from the Supreme Court, which would overturn Roe v. Wade. Here, she is criticizing people who use "my body, my choice" in regards to masks, but don't allow it for when it comes to women's reproductive health.
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  2022-06-15

  Long-Term Decline in US Abortions Reverses, Showing Rising Need for Abortion as Supreme Court Is Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade

  This is a news story from The Guttmacher Institute. This article was written before the official Supreme Court decision was released on abortion. The article states that the 30 year decline in abortions has picked up with the threat of Roe v. Wade getting overturned. At the time this article is being entered in, Roe has been officially overturned by the Supreme Court. What is more interesting to me are the numbers given on abortions in 2020, when COVID was at its peak. In 2020, there was 930,160 total abortions, which was an 8% increase from 862,320 abortions in 2017. In 2020, about 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in abortion. The increase in abortions was marked in an overall 6% decrease in births between 2017 and 2020. The article does not discuss the social reasons why more abortions were happening in 2020 compared to other years, but in my own opinion, people's fears of hospitals being too full and the financial strain of lockdowns would have made it difficult to want to carry a baby to term. At the time, people were unsure of how long lockdowns and restrictions would last, so getting the pregnancy care needed to prevent issues giving birth would have been harder to come by.
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  2020-10-08

  "The Nightmarish Challenge of Trying to Get an Abortion in a Pandemic"

  The article describes the recent challenges to obtaining an abortion in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic due to several states attempting to add further restrictions on abortion rights. It is important to understand that while it was already difficult for many to obtain abortions to begin with, the pandemic has added even more challenges for those seeking reproductive healthcare as well as more opportunities for anti-choice lawmakers to restrict abortion care.
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  2020-10-28

  Protests in Poland

  The government in Poland is trying to rule abortion as illigal. Poland is predominantly a Catholic country which is causing a divide between the government and the younger generation. Thousands of individuals are against this action and are taking to the streets to protest during the pandemic. The government in Poland is getting involved with the protests with tanks and police in riot gear.
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  2020-04-23

  Responding to a Story of Rape and Abortion in Mexico (Rewire News)

  "Sixteen-year-old Patricia discovered she was pregnant after a taxi driver in her city of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico, raped her." This article is responding to an article from Rewire News on a story of rape and abortion in Mexico, and was written by a senior journalism student following a beat developed and thought about in terms of the "local" in a journalism course at Pratt Institute that was upended by the pandemic.