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Fighting The Radical Right Ohio
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We are a grassroots organization based out of Lake County, Ohio.
We specialize in women’s rights, but we are proud to support the rights of all people.

We operate solely on donations.
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Ultimately, BMI restrictions are rooted in weight stigma and work to block patients from getting the abortion care they need.
Black graphic with cutout of road block. Text reads, "When anti-fatness is treated as fact. Anti-fatness is pervasive in medical settings. BMI restrictions are too often used to back up anti-fat bias that has no basis in fact. This bias—especially when paired with the intersection of race, class, gender, age, and disability—keeps people from accessing essential healthcare. “We yell at antis for sowing misinformation and stigma [...] why are we not being held to a higher standard to ensure that fatphobia is not integrated into our practices and ensuring that the care is accessible to all people?” Lexis Dotson-Dufault."
April 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Many providers have BMI limits for procedural—aka in-clinic—abortions, citing increased risk of complications.

But a review of research confirms that there is NOT a significant relationship between higher weight & complication risk. journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
Black and blue gradient with text reading, "BMI limits and abortion. Often, providers set BMI limits for specific procedures or types of care. As was the case with Lexis, her provider denied an in-clinic (aka procedural) abortion. Medication abortion was still an option at her stage in pregnancy, but medication abortion isn’t preferred or available to everyone. Patients denied procedural care at a clinic who can’t or won’t use abortion pills are often referred to a hospital for care. This practice is excessive—in the medical, financial, and time sense. But is there evidence to back up restrictions around weight & abortion? spoiler: no, not really." Blue and black gradient with text reading, "BMI restrictions for procedures are often based on an assumption that higher weights mean higher complication risks. But that’s just not true. Doctoral fellow & abortion advocate, Hayley McMahon, and a team of researchers at Emory University recently published a systematic review of studies around weight, abortion care, and complication rates. They found there wasn’t a significant relationship between weight & complications. Screenshot from the abstract of “Weight and Procedural Abortion Complications: A Systematic Review,” which is published in Obstetrics & Gynecology."
April 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM