- I feel like we need to take a lot of long sighs
after these questions.
- I know, it's like, okay.
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- I don't know anything technical at all
about abortion.
The only thing I know is that I am fully in support of it.
- So I grew up in England,
and I honestly cannot remember one conversation
at school that was anything to do with abortion.
- In my schooling and my education,
it was mostly about abstinence.
I don't really know what's facts and what's fake news.
- I feel like I know more about the politics
and laws based around it than I do the actual procedure.
- The only things I've known about abortion
is through media, through TV shows.
- I was shown a vacuum abortion ultrasound video
in my science class.
That was the only form of sexual education I got.
Because I came from that background,
I approached the whole subject of abortion
with a ton of fear.
- All right, let's see how much we know.
- [Devin] Not counting the medical center visit,
most in-clinic abortion procedures
take roughly an hour.
- I'm pretty sure it's quick.
- The TV shows make it seem quick.
- Yeah, although there is a lot of editing in TV.
- That sounds about right. - Yeah.
- The only thing is, I think it actually might take
a lot less than an hour. (laughing)
- Oh!
- I think it's like-- - Roughly an hour?
- 15 minutes, the procedure itself.
- I'm gonna go with true. - I think that's true.
- I think I'll go with true.
- For the record, it's true,
unless it's less time. - That way, we're not
really wrong. - Yeah.
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- You were right.
- I thought an hour was short.
- Yeah. - 10 minutes, damn.
- I think it's crazy but the procedure itself
takes 10 minutes, and all the (beeping) around it
takes all the time. - Mm, I see.
- So the disclaimer was made, we were right.
- [Devin] Anti-abortion laws were not enacted in the US
until the 19th century.
- Well, before that, did they even bother trying?
Like, 'cause that sounds like there wasn't enough science
before that anyway.
- I know this, it's true.
Oh, wait, 20th century.
- When are people more likely to start acting like they--
- Yeah.
- I imagine there was good enough technology
to be able to even try and do an abortion?
- 20th century. - I'm gonna go with false.
- I'm gonna go with false. - I'm gonna go with true.
- False, I hope, I really hope.
(dinging)
Oh, God. - What?
- We were more liberal back then.
- Yeah, I would say, that's months in.
- To me, personally, this is around when
I feel like people would be like,
oh, well, we deserve to say what they can and can't do.
- [Janna] More than half of abortion patients
said that they were using contraceptives
when they got pregnant.
- You know what?
The body is weird. - More than half?
- I would say true.
- Okay, you could not be using them correctly.
- Yeah, well, that's what I would assume.
- It's really hard to know when something is working,
and when it's not working.
- I'll go with true.
- I think it's 'cause it's so scary, I'm gonna go with true.
- Yeah, it is scary.
- Nothing's 100% reliable, it happens.
I think it's true.
- I think it's true, too.
(dinging)
Yes.
- Wow. - That's so scary.
- I mean, that is.
- I'm sure there are a lot of cases of misuse
of contraceptives, like they just don't use it properly.
- They don't know.
- Which also speaks to like knowledge and information
about how to use contraceptives correctly.
- Sometimes, in school, you're taught
how to use contraceptives
and you try to use them correctly,
and then you still get pregnant.
- It's just like accidents happen.
- Yeah.
- [Chloe] Doctors have said that abortions are as safe
or even safer than a colonoscopy.
- I'm not sure. - Yeah.
I mean, it's something going up a hole.
- Would it depend on the trimester?
- I'd say that sounds true.
- I think it sounds true, for sure.
- It's a 10 minute procedure.
You're literally in and you're out, that's insane.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go with my gut.
- I'm gonna stick with true,
just to keep things interesting.
- I think that that is true.
- Mm-hmm, me too.
- I'm gonna go with true.
- Yeah, I'm gonna with true, too.
(dinging)
- Oh wow. - That's awesome.
- Yay!
- That's not to say that the procedure isn't uncomfortable.
A colonoscopy is uncomfortable.
There's somebody poking around your butthole.
- It's really a safe procedure.
- Yeah.
- Knowing that it's safe is also comforting,
even though it's most likely an uncomfortable process.
- We love safe procedures. - Sure do.
- Yes.
- [Swasti] US states have enacted
over 1,000 abortion restrictions
since the Supreme Court legalized abortion
in 1973 with the landmark case Roe vs. Wade.
- I say yes.
- But it does sound like a true kind of statement,
unless it's like over 2,000.
- Right. - Abortion restrictions.
- I went to school, and we were finally allowed
to wear pants, and they made them these horrible,
giant, gray clown pants, so that we wouldn't wear them.
That's the equivalent of that in politics.
- My gut instinct is true.
- That's true to me. - Yeah, I agree.
- I've seen recent restrictions,
so I definitely thinks that's very true.
- Mm-hmm.
(dinging)
Oh, that's awful. - That's crazy.
- That is actually insane, like why?
What could, I wanna read what these restrictions are,
and why they're being put there.
Like I don't understand the point in it.
- I just feel like when it comes to abortions,
people who identify as women should hold a conference
and come to a decision together.
Everyone else, stay out of the conversation.
- Yeah, exactly.
- [Swasti] 33% of people who receive abortions
have already had one or more live births.
- Huh. - Oh.
- Hmm. - Hmm.
- I would believe it.
- So they already have children.
- Mm, or carried a baby to term.
- But I don't know if it's as high as 33%.
- I think some people, it's just not,
it wouldn't work for them to increase their family.
- I'll say true, just 'cause 33 feels like a modest number.
- I'll go with true.
- I think it's true. - I think it's true also.
(gasping) - Damn.
- Wow! - You were right.
You shouldn't have gone with me.
- That's much higher than I thought.
- Sis, do what you gotta do for you.
- Yeah.
- I won't be mad.
- Those people have been through it,
so they know what they want and don't want.
- [Joyce] People who receive abortions
usually aren't able to become pregnant again for six months.
- I honestly never thought about how
it might affect fertility.
- Is six months too long?
Is six months too little?
- I think it's false.
I really think the female body really snaps back.
- It does, 'cause you can be on birth control for years,
and then get pregnant immediately.
- If you have an abortion, that means you got pregnant,
and if you got pregnant, that means you're fertile.
- So we think it's-- - False.
- So I'm gonna go with false.
- I will follow your lead.
- [Both] Yay!
- Women are great. - I know!
We really snap back.
- I don't see what it would do that's so awful
to your body you wouldn't be able to get pregnant again.
- We're fertile beings.
- Fertile beans? - Beings, but beans too.
A report by the Guttmacher Institute in March 2016
found that increased access to contraception
does increase rates of abortion by 10 to 15%.
- 2016 was a hell of a year.
- That sounds like trash.
- Is that increased access to more contraception?
Like more effective contraception?
- If you're a human teenager, you're gonna wanna have sex.
It's just science. - It is.
- And you're gonna need to cover it up.
- Yeah. - And if you do,
guess who doesn't go in the womb?
Baby.
- I'm just gonna say false, because I hate that.
- The reason why I'm saying true
is you just can't give contraceptions without education.
- I believe that to be false.
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- Ah. - Yay!
- Human beings want to have sex, it's science,
animals have sex, we are animals,
just let them have sex.
Have sex responsibly.
- This is what fear does to people.
Even when you're, you know, your mindset
is completely changed, you hang onto these fears
because you remember the fear more
than you remember the facts.
- [Joyce] According to Planned Parenthood,
about 25% of women in the US have had an abortion
by the time they reach 45 years old.
- I don't know, 25% feels like a lot.
- Wow, that's quite hard.
- I don't think it would be that many.
- I don't feel like I know anyone that's had one,
but then I guess you might not tell people.
- I'm gonna say that I think it's less.
- I'm gonna say true. - Yeah.
- I'm gonna say that is true.
- 'Cause I feel like it's a tiny bit lower.
(dinging)
(gasping) - Wow.
- That's crazy.
- That's a lot more than I thought.
- If you have a group of middle aged women,
you can be like, one, two, three, four,
one, two, three, four, one, two, three, yes, yes, yes.
- You are not alone, there are a community of women
who are like you.
- I definitely want to brush up on my knowledge
a little more now, 'cause it's made me realize
that I don't know everything, and I should.
- I do want this to be taught.
- Yes. - In school.
- I supposedly don't know anyone who's had one,
but they probably have, and they should be able
to speak about it.
- I think that we should make abortion,
instead of something that we're supposed to be
so serious about, a part of the everyday conversation.
- There's always something to learn,
because there's so much misinformation out there.
Take the shame away, look at the facts,
and make a decision from there.
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