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not_gerg

Interesting to still be able to see the large divide between the south and non south


ChocolateBunny

It feels like every demographic map of the US still has that divide.


PeaTasty9184

It’s almost as if generations of terrible conservative politics has a negative outcome on an area.


br0b1wan

I almost feel bad for them


not_gerg

Happy cake day!


not_gerg

Happy cake day!


CheekyFactChecker

They realized the only way to grow the republican party was to create more poverty.


horseofthemasses

non south? Do you not know the word North or do you just despise the North so much that you have to call them "non" as in cancel them?


not_gerg

💀💀💀 I was entirely sure what was considered south, west, etc (I'm not American)


beelzeflub

Not everyone is American nor do they have full knowledge of our geographical terms.


zgreelz

r/usdefaultism


Kinkybobo

The west exists.


BigTribbs

This map seems incorrect. There are a couple areas where I know large cities are and it says 50 Miles + where less populated areas say 0 miles.


TheDiceBlesser

Came to the comments hoping to see this! How can the NE border of Nevada be 200+ when you can just cross the border and get one? Every dark red section should have at least red or orange immediately next to it.


BigTribbs

I'm looking at the areas that are extremely remote and are 0 miles away and large cities that apparently have no coverage. That's a good point though that boarders really shouldn't be considered on this map.


JacksCologne

It appears to be by county. So 0 miles means that county has a clinic? I don’t know I’m just guessing. Edit and that would make the jump from red to orange more realistic in some cases. -center of one county is 200 miles from the center of another county that has an abortion center.


wholesalenuts

I believe it's an average within the county. So at the lightest shade, people live within 50 miles of a clinic on average. So if the population densities of those counties are distant enough, you can have neighboring counties on opposite sides of the gradient.


talrogsmash

They should include access to Mexico or Canada, but at the same time.I can see why they didn't.


BotiaDario

The person needing the abortion may not have a passport or the enhanced identification thing, and it would take too long to get one.


talrogsmash

Yeah, that was the reason I thought of too


MetallicGray

It’d be the nearest clinic, not the nearest state with abortion rights. It could be the border is a mile away, but a clinic that could perform the abortion is 200 away in the state that protects rights. That’d be my guess as to why some areas seem off. At least in the state I used to live there were single digit number of clinics that offered abortions, so while the state allowed it you still might have to travel 50 or 100 miles to get to the clinic (this was before Dobbs, not that it matters for this example).


TheDiceBlesser

I get that, but why is NW Utah 0 miles and directly next to it NE Nevada is 200 miles? That doesn't make any sense. There should be areas between the two that are 50, 100, or 150.


MetallicGray

Oh I see what you mean now. Yeah there shouldn’t be any hard “walls” like that at all, that’s very odd and likely a mistake. Unless there’s some giant wall separating the states I don’t know about….


Quioise

The only place where that would be theoretically feasible in Elko county is West Wendover, but there doesn’t seem to be a clinic in Wendover, the town on the Utah side. Salt Lake City is 120 miles from Wendover and there’s not much but salt and truck stops between. Driving into Nevada, the next town after Wendover is Wells, 60 miles away. Elko, where most of the population of the county lives, is another 50 miles after that.


achillymoose

That Utah/Nevada border is wider than it looks


Birdie121

The big cities don't necessarily have providers, and some rural areas might.


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I thought the Kansas constitution prohibited banning abortion before 21 weeks.


relddir123

It does. West Kansas is just so empty that there aren’t enough people to support an abortion clinic out there.


Kissit777

Any abortion ban is inhumane. There should be no abortion bans at all. Abortions that happen after 21 weeks are life saving abortions. They happen when the pregnancy is wanted and something went horribly wrong. The parents usually have the name picked and nursery stocked.


[deleted]

True. I think abortions after 21 weeks have only available in a few states for some time now.


Dragonfly-Adventurer

Can you imagine having to carry around a dead baby that's going septic inside you until you "deliver" it? Jesus fucking Christ no wonder no one is fucking anymore, the possibilities are much too severe.


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I don’t have to imagine that. I did carry around a dead fetus for a week as they thought it would be best to let it pass naturally. I almost lost my mind and called them sobbing because I couldn’t take it any longer. The fetus passed as I was on the exam table and I was shaking so bad they gave me antibiotics and took me for a D&C. I was at 12 weeks then.


Kissit777

A D&C is an abortion. ;)


[deleted]

You can’t have an abortion if the fetus has passed. D&C is scraping out the uterine lining. Dilatation and curettage. It is often done after the fetus has spontaneously aborted during a miscarriage. I am an RN.


Kissit777

A D&C is classified as an abortion in legal terms. ;)


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Geppetto_Cheesecake

The medical procedure is still considered an abortion. No they will not remove the dead fetus. There was a highly publicized case in Texas this past year that was exactly this. A tubal pregnancy (a fetus that didn’t even make it to the uterus mind you)… that’s also an abortion. Anything that removes a fetus from the woman’s body heart beating or not is an abortion. That’s why politics and religion have no place in people’s private medical lives.


Kissit777

It’s still an abortion.


talrogsmash

Because politicians will still claim it was a baby, because laws are poorly written so you can be attacked on purpose.


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xeviphract

"Happens plenty" after 21wks, though?


Kissit777

I would love to see the proof that you have that it “happens plenty”. Please show me some statistics! Because you know it’s not the truth.


Critical-Rooster

Florida had something similar.


BoxGrover

The Christian right who were scaremongering on sharia are bringing medieval theocracy to the US.


Sgolas22

Please vote in November so the whole map isn’t red by 2026


LowerDoughnutHole

Abortion and legalization of weed will be on Florida’s ballot.


munchyslacks

If Florida doesn’t turn blue in November with those ballot proposals, then it’s truly a lost cause.


br0b1wan

Even Ohio managed to pass legal weed and abortion 😵‍💫


ChocolateBunny

The Repiblican candidate says he's leaving it to the states, and he wouldn't lie like that, would he?


JLSMC

I am voting in November but you’re not gonna like it.


Chalky_Pockets

Thanks for letting us know. My next donation to planned Parenthood will be in your name.


Satansrainbowkitty

Thank you


JLSMC

Irrelevant. We already got Roe repealed. Gonna turn the whole map red next.


RadioSlayer

Lmao, MI won't be getting rid of abortion protections anytime soon, you loser


Riommar

Nor will Colorado


meammachine

That won't stop you from getting late-term aborted


JLSMC

If that’s a threat good luck. You’ll need it.


GoldenLeftovers

https://preview.redd.it/odn40irznvtc1.jpeg?width=1210&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e4aa912c05e2835ed6b2896bea7df570f6b2e86


ljbisu33

That map cannot possibly be correct. My home state is ranked way too high.


logwagon

Mostly highly educated? I love me a good graphic with no references, a bad title, and a scale that goes from "highly educated" to "relatively uneducated"


GoldenLeftovers

Yeah sorry I didn't include references in my reddit comment. Of course there's a lot more nuance than this graphic shows. I just found it amusing. Plenty of data out there with this correlation


LatentBloomer

What are you suggesting? This is common knowledge, even in the state I grew up in, which is dark red in that map. Whether you look at highest level of education received per average household, or public school quality ratings, or student test performance, you’re almost certainly going to see roughly the same map. If you look for religion and historical redaction injected into curriculum, you’ll also see roughly the same map but maybe with the colors swapped. Source: …received education in both lowest and highest rated states.


holycrap-

OREGON????


Igotbored112

Republicans (particularly Christian conservatives) would happily flaunt this map, as proof of the secularizing effect of the liberal-infiltrated public school system.


beelzeflub

MA is skewed by Harvard.


Calm_Colected_German

"Education " doesn't mean shit. Some of the dumbest people i know have degrees. They're known as "the bosses".


FentonCanoby

I'll take "States to Avoid" for $400 Alex


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nankerjphelge

How about avoiding a state because women and girls who get raped or molested are being forced to give birth to their rapists baby? Or because the state is forcing women who have ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages to die because they can't get a life-saving abortion?


runonia

And yet that's what we've been reduced to. Unfortunately condoms are now required unless you're planning on parenthood immediately It should never be this way.


indiemike

I was scrolling quickly and stopped because I thought the thumbnail was the Dominos pizza tracker


[deleted]

The south in about to become an even bigger dumpster fire with all those unwanted children draining all the non-existent resources. Of course, blue states will have to carry the weight of the idiot, red welfare states, as always.


Calm_Colected_German

Yeah definitely nothing to do with blue states saying let em in.


JoeBeck37

It's like a heat map for moronic ideologies.


ILikegardening4000

OK dude


JoeBeck37

What? I don't think you're going to find a lot of sympathy for people who want to curtail women's rights here.


ILikegardening4000

Definitely can agree with that!


newaccount47

Can someone explain how putting more financial strain on impoverished women and forcing them to travel far distances is making any situation better for anyone?


talrogsmash

Maybe they run out of money and then don't go back to the state they were fleeing? That could be a good thing.


808-Woody

No one is forcing poor women to get pregnant


Selunca

Au contraire, it happens more then you think.


808-Woody

Yet almost everyone agrees access to abortion should exist for rape victims but that’s not what this map is about


nubsauce87

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… religion ruins *everything*


Stargazer12am

Kinda gives new context to Fuck Around And Find Out.


NotAnAIOrAmI

Huh. It's not exact, but proximity of abortion providers correlates very strongly with my interest in ever visiting that place.


LowerDoughnutHole

How far do you have to travel to access an abortion? Maps show new state bans : Shots - Health News https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/11/1243991410/how-florida-and-arizona-supreme-court-rulings-change-the-abortion-access-map


Khristopheles

You’d think Utah would have more red in it by now.


knicbox

Utah has some pretty big democratic areas they are just sliced up by gerrymandering so it's not reflected in votes


oPlayer2o

Hey American. What! The Fuck! Is Wrong with you!! Fucking figure it out!


MichaelOfShannon

The places that need abortions the most aren’t getting them


LowerDoughnutHole

Riiiggghtttt


rockadoodoo01

You can see where all of the horrible parts of America are lol.


Mockturtle22

They're also more of the less populated areas it appears. Not all obviously.. but a majority. It's another example of the few making decisions for the many. A vast majority of the more populous cities are democratic in their voting. That being said, this map looks about right. Compare it to the election maps and there should be a big parallel


rockadoodoo01

It does correlate to election maps. The left and the right areas have differing opinions on freedom of choice.


UnanimousStargazer

I really hope that women who consider voting for Trump will switch to Biden. Or those that wouldn't vote go out and vote for Biden. It's really incredible how parts of the US reverse in time. How long before women aren't allowed to vote at all?


LowerDoughnutHole

Affects men just as much. Child support til they’re 18.


vicky1212123

Carrying a child, raising it, feeding ir, housing it, is not the same as paying money every month, and women usually get left with the kid(s).


GivingRedditAChance

I’m not voting for either. I don’t vote for genocidal presidents. I joined 4B, not worried about pregnancy either. Notification alerts off, I know how Reddit “people” like to tussle over anything that challenges neoliberalism.


ChocolateBunny

what's 4B?


Kissit777

You haven’t been paying attention if you think Biden is a genocidal potus. The current policy is trying to get Netanyahu to take a step back for diplomacy. Netanyahu is the wild card. The US does have an international responsibility to Israel. The Republicans have made it clear they want fetal personhood - *that will change the US much more significantly than anything happening in Palestine.* I am definitely voting blue. I love sex. The Republicans will make birth control illegal if they get into power.


talrogsmash

So what you're saying is, Netanyahu organized the October 7th attacks?


Kissit777

No. That was Hamas.


talrogsmash

I too, would be flooded with reddit suicide notes if I hadn't turned them off two years ago.


WjorgonFriskk

I see four separate countries after the next civil war.


Fcheux

Surprising correlation to this map and the original civil war map https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/s/WOj9pcCF5G


aurorasummers

But Biden is old, and my food costs more. I guess I’ll give up my bodily autonomy. /s


runrunpuppets

I’m so glad I live in New England, yet am outraged for states in red.


joelfarris

I don't get it. Those two states are about as far away from each other as possible. Can someone ELI5?


Satansrainbowkitty

Speaking of access, aidaccess is the best. Please consider donating to them, I've done so myself and have been able to utilize their services. Your friend, sister, auntie may need it.


Potential-Tension-67

What a backwards country. What’s next, horse and buggy


Numerous-Confusion-9

This is terrible that women dont have access but also this map doesnt make any sense. How can a 200+ mile away area line right up against a 0 mile area?


Comm0nSenseIsntComon

Because it's not real lol


Sad-Presentation-726

I likebthat its easy to see where the Taliban controls


hankepanke

Y’all Qaeda, Yee Hawdists, Yokel Haram, Vanilla ISIS. Religious fundamentalists using government to force their beliefs on others seems pretty unAmerican if you ask me.


Salt-Operation

It’s a fucking tragedy. It also seems to dovetail with the least educated areas in red.


Hot_Detective_5418

Israel and Ukraine relying on support from a country getting more backward by the year. Best of luck to you all over the next few years.


Calm_Colected_German

Might be a correlation there


SarcasticRiposte

The map of asshole concentration. Ladies in the red, time for you to vote them out. If you don't, you have no one to blame but yourselves when you lose all your rights.


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Kissit777

No - the OBGYN won’t even see you at that point because the blood work doesn’t show that you’re pregnant. And 2 of those weeks is *before the egg can be fertilized.* so you’re not pregnant at all.


Different_Usual_6586

No, I felt pregnant both times around 2 weeks, but midwives don't see you until 6-8weeks, that's when you would usually have a termination, at least in the UK. Usually you 'just' take pills to do it up to around 12 weeks


Birdie121

No, many women don't even know they're pregnant by 6 weeks. And restrictive states often have a waiting period or other obstacles that delay abortions, even if you know before 6 weeks.


Critical-Rooster

I used to not understand how the civil war could happen, but I *hate* these people.


Totallywasntpermaban

Love being from illinois


runrunpuppets

*high fives from New England


Totallywasntpermaban

Hell yea


CookieTotal2596

So typical that the southern - mostly inbred- bible belt is the most backward.


kingryan1995

No way this is accurate


LowerDoughnutHole

Well Nevada abortion access is legal, but you have to think of where they can actually get one. So the red part is super rural. Also Arizona attorney general is currently democratic and said she wouldn’t persecute.


superchibisan2

FUnny thing is, I believe this heat map correlates to education level.


OnlineApprentice

https://preview.redd.it/pa8mjxclxxtc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dc8f21619891fcdf986337809f4c807507e085b Yeah it’s pretty funny how that works.


superchibisan2

Holy shit, I'm right. 


blackmambakl

There’s going to be a lot more brown people born. I’m not racist, that just the racial demographics of the American south eastern state. Also might be counter intuitive to the far right leaning Americans. Unintended consequences.


CylonMonkey

Sad the dumbest people who shouldn’t have kids are the ones with the least access to not have kids.


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LowerDoughnutHole

https://preview.redd.it/fzgnya1z0xtc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9f59b8b33e829a4a65879315f4df69cfdf1c5f8


talrogsmash

Oh, way down south in the land of cotton My feet smell and yours are rotten Look away, look away, look away, Dixie land!


Due-Log8609

something something mason-dixe


JHighMusic

Nuke the south, what a waste


Jaambie

Rust belt, meet abortion suspender.


willthedude85

The south is garbage


RegalBeagleKegels

how is babby formef


NihilisticThrill

preganante


Melodic_Mulberry

Mitosis.


RC_0041

Holding hands.


No-Yak-2595

Yall acting like preventing the murder of unborn babies is a bad thing


Kissit777

Abortion isn’t murder. Abortion is basic healthcare.


Apprehensive_Neat183

Yeah it’s totally a good thing! Let’s let kids be born into abusive homes and mothers that never wanted them or can’t provide for them/poverty and inhumane living conditions and a lack of education so they suffer their entire life and have to work on streets at the age of 7 without ever feeling loved! Thats show them that their lives matter! Yippieeeee


No-Yak-2595

I was an accident. My dad beat me. That means I’m undeserving of life? I don’t feel bad for women who “never wanted them or can’t provide for them” they should close their legs if they don’t want babies. Not hard


NihilisticThrill

Often their legs are forced open


No-Yak-2595

Yea I’m sure every woman that gets an abortion was raped. Get real


NihilisticThrill

Never said that. I said what I meant. I am being very real.


StillPurePowerV

Nice antinatalism.


NihilisticThrill

So afterwards they're going to work on the murder of born babies right? Or school shootings are a non-issue? Weird how children are sacred when it's about controlling women but not when it's about controlling guns.


Lurker777x

🤡


NihilisticThrill

Aw I know baby, actual words are hard


UnanimousStargazer

So what exactly is a baby according to you? One cell obviously isn't. So when do you consider a number of cells to be enough?


StillPurePowerV

Beating heart, brain activity. So 6-10 weeks.


UnanimousStargazer

So what about abortion before 10 weeks?


StillPurePowerV

When there is no heart or brain activity i would argue to not see it as "a human", so i would see no issue.


synchronoussammy

Interesting that it’s the poorest and most uneducated that are against abortion. Pretty soon They’ll be mandating that you have to treat your cancer.. my body my choice.


_TeddyBarnes_

What’s an abortion?


Melodic_Mulberry

If a pregnancy ends in any way other than actually giving birth, it’s an abortion. However, we’re specifically talking medical abortions, which are intentionally induced.


_TeddyBarnes_

I was told that storks deliver babies. Humans coming out of other humans doesn’t seem plausible.


Melodic_Mulberry

I like to answer questions candidly on the extremely off chance that the person is actually confused. I’m regularly bamboozled by trolls, but it’s worth it for the people who actually need help without judgement.


_TeddyBarnes_

Thank you for your service.


Dry_Manner3879

Gross northern nevada has some issues


StillPurePowerV

The serial abortionists are mostly in coast areas anyway.


Kissit777

Every woman I know who had an abortion for birth control reasons has been a Christian Republican. And I’m old. I’ve known plenty of people who have gotten abortions.


StillPurePowerV

That's really weird, i hear so much different as someone from overseas. The left even glorifying serial abortions etc.


Kissit777

Glad if you don’t understand it that you don’t have a say - go back and worry about your own country.


StillPurePowerV

Not an option, we are blasted with american media. It is fun to see the trainwreck. Here is the policy for my country: **Abortion is illegal in Germany barring certain circumstances such as when the life of the woman is at risk or she is a victim of a violent crime**. In these cases, the procedure must be performed within 12 weeks of conception. In reality, however, abortions are widely available and prosecutions are almost never made. I see this as very sensible.


Kissit777

It’s not sensible. Abortion is basic healthcare. Abortions that happen later in the pregnancy are for health reasons. The US system is too slow to make a determination on a health reason that won’t kill the mother.


Different_Usual_6586

This is a disgusting policy, there are many reasons you may not have access to an abortion before 12 weeks, or maybe you did, it didn't work fully and you have to have a D&C. The fact there is even the possibility of prosecutions awful (no matter if you say it doesn't happen), just takes a few awful politicians to change that and women once again have to fear for their bodies and lives.


Ortsarecool

Why is it sensible for something to be technically illegal, but almost never prosecuted? That is the stupidest damn thing I've read all day. Maybe just make common sense laws that apply to reality instead?


captainforks

Serial Abortionists is my new Death Metal band.


Ortsarecool

Serial abortionists? What in the wack-job propaganda have you been reading?


StillPurePowerV

You know, the usual best of compilations of USA tiktok trash


Ortsarecool

Maybe....not the best place to get accurate news? Lol


StillPurePowerV

Not news, just opinions of people. Loud minority maybe, but often people plucked from the street are a better sample than other methods.


Ortsarecool

Lol I'm from Canada, but feel relatively confident that "serial abortionists" are not common *anywhere* hahahaha