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Two words you never want to hear together: "DIY" and "abortion." But unfortunately, new abortion restrictions are making it harder for women to get safe abortions, so they might be trying to terminate their pregnancies themselves. This is obviously so dangerous.
In 2015, there were more than 700,000 Google searches looking into self-induced abortions, according to an analysis by the New York Times. These searches increased by about 40 percent in 2011
Though it's unclear how many women are actually following through with self-induced abortions, the searches are concerning; there were tens of thousands of searches about inducing abortion with herbs like parsley or vitamin C, about 4,000 searches for directions on coat hanger abortions (remember hanger abortions that were quite common just a few decades back?), and a few hundred searches related to uterus bleaching and punching one's stomach.
Wow.
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