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Emily Baker-White
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Tech journalist at Forbes. Formerly at BuzzFeed News. Before that: content policy for Facebook and Spotify. Before that: Plain View Project & lawyering
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I found nearly 800 Facebook groups and pages across 76 countries offering to connect women to abortion remedies. At least 300 operate where abortion is at least sometimes illegal. They’re replete with scams. This is what happens when you criminalize healthcare. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Inside Facebook’s Scammy Abortion Access Network
Inside Facebook’s Scammy Abortion Access Network

In hundreds of groups across the social media app, women with unwanted pregnancies turn to one another for pills and herbal remedies. Many say they are getting scammed instead.

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Zzeebest1.bsky.social

FB is a rabbit hole for the mindless lone-lies.

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MWmkwilson27.bsky.social

Criminalizing drugs gave us Fentanyl…

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Mmurph612.bsky.social

That’s…..fucked up. Evil.

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LAerinacean.bsky.social

I wonder if scammers will eventually go full Chrimes Brothers and try to blackmail the women seeking their fake remedies for seeking illegal abortions: thequackdoctor.com/index.php/no... (Such pills were a massively advertised racket in C19th-early C20th but these guys took it to the next level.)

Notorious Chrimes: The Blackmail Pills | The Quack Doctor
Notorious Chrimes: The Blackmail Pills | The Quack Doctor

In 1890s London, the 'Lady Montrose Pills' blackmail scheme efficiently and heartlessly targeted more than 8,000 victims.

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MLmains-lounger.bsky.social

The UK ‘Rillington Place’ serial killer John Christie in the 1950s is the best advertisement against driving abortions underground where the vulnerable will be exploited. Anybody with actual memory of that time would think anyone wanting to go back to those ‘good old days’ must be insane.

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Emily Baker-White
@ebakerwhite.bsky.social
Tech journalist at Forbes. Formerly at BuzzFeed News. Before that: content policy for Facebook and Spotify. Before that: Plain View Project & lawyering
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