My girlfriend had to have an abortion before we met, because the pregnancy would literally have killed her. She still almost died from blood loss. That blob of cells was not conscious, sentient, or “alive” in any significant way compared to her. It was a blob of cells with a rudimentary circulatory system, and should never be considered more worthy of existing than the adult woman it would have killed. I’m so glad she was able to get that abortion before the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

As a black person, nothing disgusts me more than anti abortion ppl saying that abortion is worst than slavery or even the holocaust. these ppl just don’t understand how they diminish the pain, trauma, and literal torture of human beings.

Something that is so often looked over when people are talking about late stage abortions is that....those pregnancies are ones that are wanted. Those are people who are suffering a medical tragedy at the same time as losing their baby. When you're in the third trimester, you have decided to keep that baby. You probably have a nursery made, clothes picked out, maybe even a name picked out. It's so cruel to use these as "proof" of the pregnant person being callous and cruel to their child.

Disgusting she’d say ectopic pregnancies and other life threatening conditions in pregnancy aren’t abortion when women are currently going into sepsis, bleeding out, and dying waiting for care for those kinds of things in pregnancy because they ARE considered abortions. Abortion isn’t a bad word like prolifers want it to be, it’s still the medical term whether you had to end the pregnancy or wanted to.

As a Jew, can I just say I’m so tired of people comparing everything to the Holocaust 😭😭

She says that terminating ectopic pregnancies and termination when the life of the mother is in danger or the fetus is not viable are "not abortions"? Well, guess what? Under the law they are. And in the states that banned abortion you have immense difficulties to get those as well.

Good for you! Forced birth should be illegal. I marched in 1972. I marched in 2023. It shouldn’t be decided by crusty old men who don’t know a fallopian tube from a cervix.

the whole "i don't have freedom of speech because i don't like someone else's opinion to MY opinion" always gets an eye roll from me.

The most tragic part is the "Save the children!" comment. They don't care about the child when it's born, they care about the birth of it and nothing more.

Roe v Wade being overturn affirmed to me that I don't want kids. It not worth dying over. As a black woman and someone who suffers from PCOS and fibroids the risk of maternal mortality is higher for me.

I don't really care if abortion is medically necesary or not. The fact that anyone wants one should be more than enough because forcing someone to birth a baby with all the very real and very dangerous consequences that can come with it, it's literal torture. The moment someone chooses they don't want to be a parent anymore should be enough. The moment someone said "I don't want this thing to happen to my body" should be enough. A fetus is never going to be more valuable and important than my right to decide what happens with my body. Sorry, not sorry.

28:50 who is gonna tell her that the medical term for a miscarriage is "spontaneous abortion" literally all of those things are medically considered forms of abortion

on the note of antisemitism, judaism explicitly states that it believes in the right to an abortion, and polls find american jews are overwhelmingly pro-choice. promoting these kinds of pro-life ideas while dehumanizing jews just makes it worse and more damaging to jewish people.

Her saying that treating ectopic pregnancies isn't an abortion is sending me... Like, a miscarriage is an abortion on your medical chart. I'm tired of people treating doing your own research as equally valid across the board. Is your research on blogs or peer-reviewed journals? It makes a difference.

Isn’t it interesting that banning vasectomy has never even been a whisper with the “pro life” crowd?

19:46 Saying that abortion is WORSE than the holocaust is insane. They are comparing UNSENTINENT beings to CENTURIES of oppression faced by SENTINENT humans

It boggles me that so many people don't understand "Right to free speech" means protection from *government* censorship. It doesn't protect you from your fellow citizens or non-government entities responding and reacting to your expressions.

The fact of the matter is we have clear precedent for the right of bodily autonomy superseding the right to life. That’s why we don’t force people to donate a kidney, part of their liver, bone marrow, or even blood! *Thousands* of people die every year waiting for those things. Bc one person’s right to say what happens with their body supersedes another person’s right to life in situations where they are in direct, unavoidable opposition. Why would it be ok for pregnant people to have *fewer rights* than everyone else?

i love their mindset of "oh, okay! you don't want to have a child that you know you cant care for? thats really immoral you know" (slowly turning pictures of real gore with no warning)

Ugh. I had a D&E procedure after my child's heart stopped while in-utero. That's not how it's done first of all. So, they're traumatizing people who are grieving a pregnancy loss as well. Luckily, my state's partial ban was 24 weeks and I was 18 weeks. Additionally, there's language specific to miscarriages and life-threatening complications. Unfortunately, the legislature dominated by a specific party has tried multiple times to strip that language, but our Governor is a sensible person who vetoes it every time. Without that surgical procedure, they have to induce a vaginal delivery, which can take days, costs more financially, physically and emotionally; and puts you at risk for more complications. My doctor offered it to me, but said they strongly recommended the surgical option. That's how it should be: patient and doctor discussing all the options. ...but no!!!! Let's compound the pain of a women we don't even know because **we** think **our** views get to dictate everyone's choices because we are righteous. KMA!!!!

as someone who lives in a country where we have pretty extensive sex ed, free birth control and free abortions up until week 17 (i believe), I only know of two unplanned pregnancies in my town around my age. that's probably 500 people. 2 out of 500 isn't awful. both of them decided to keep the baby. both of them live happy, healthy lives today. banning abortions only ban safe abortions. edit: allow me to add a quote that always gets to me: "no woman wants an abortion like she wants an ice cream cone or a porsche. she wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw it's on leg off." (small add on: i understand that not only women needs abortions, but i do believe that's the way the quote was phrased.)

I am Spanish, I attended school in a catholic, religious school, the type where you go to mass twice a month, where some nuns teach some of the classes. I remember as we got a bit older, into our early teens, and many of us started getting our periods and such, one day they got all of us to the movie player room and had us watch an anti-abortion film. It was extremely graphic and traumatizing. They portrayed full grown, full term babies, all bloodied up, thrown un buckets, body parts cut into pieces, placed one next to the othere, there were like 20 or more of them. I remember going home, crying to my mom, that if I ever got pregnant, I would never, ever have an abortion, no matter what. My mom was enraged when I told her what I had been shown. She had to re-educate and explain to me I just watched essentially a horror movie and that medically induced abortion had nothing to do with any of that whatsoever and that I shouldn't feel pressured to have a baby by anyone or anything and I have a right of autonomy over my body and when or if I ever want to be a mom.

Being pregnant by choice has made me the most rabid pro choice person (even more than I was before) because doing this out of love and sacrifice is challenging. Doing this under duress would be body horror torture.

I made a couple of her patterns and then saw her post that time. I thought I unfollowed. Access to "abortion pills" allowed me a peaceful induction I was able to begin at home when my son was stillborn at 24 weeks. Choice is important for everyone.

We are in a blue state, but as soon as Roe v Wade was repealed, my husband near immediately got a vasectomy. I’m getting my tubes removed in two weeks. I am only in my mid twenties. I’ve heard of a rise of folks who have decided to take more permanent birth control options in the face of uncertain access to safe “procedures”

The thing that really baffles me is that people cant be forced to give life support to someone (can't be forced to donate organs, donate blood, bone marrow, etc), so why the hell should someone be forced to give life support to a fetus? Setting aside the whole "Is a collection of cells in a whomb human/alive", even if that answer was yes, no person is obligated to give up their body to provide care for another person. It is disgusting that people will care more about a collection of cells than the living breathing people around them.

I’m 70 and well past menopause; and I was shocked, dismayed, and viscerally sick when that decision came down overturning Roe, as it impacts us all by diminishing women’s agency. We must all keep up the work and pressure to get our rights back.

I found it quite heart-breaking to see the comparison to the Holocaust of the Nazis. So for context: I'm from Germany. In school we had to learn every little thing about the WW2 and especially about the holocaust. We had to visit the cencentration camps and litterally walked over the place where hundrets and tousand of Jews had to die without any reason. Especially as a German young woman who gets thought about every single detail of holocaust and in Germany it's somewhat "legal" (you don't get a punishment) to have an arbortion it's horrible to see how people who seemingly have no clue what they're talking about on both topics and mixing these up. It's sad how misinformed some people are. Thank you for bringing this topic up again. (Sorry for my somewhat weird spelling or grammar)

americans: FREEDOM!!!!! woman: i dont want this clump of non-sentient cells growing in my body americans: whoah there thats too much freedom buddy

i found her after all of that happened, so i wasnt aware of any of that. definite unfollow. at the time of the overturning of roe v wade, i was living in texas (ew) and pregnant with a baby girl that my partner and i intentionally conceived and very desperately wanted, but i just cried and cried out of fear of the world i was bringing her into. it’s especially upsetting seeing hayhaycrochet’s comments about how the procedure is never medically necessary and that whole spiel, after seeing stuff in the news for the last year of people having to travel to have this procedure to literally save their lives. and of course the case of the 9-10yr old girl that had to travel for it.

I spent 10 years in foster care . Two of my siblings were adopted. What they fail miserably to understand that every single adoption starts with a family being torn apart, a child loses its mom a mom loses her baby . There are homes for these kids from birth to 18 . There is no guarantee that they get families. My siblings that were adopted were reminded how they were so lucky that someone wanted them and that they were saved . The churches see this as a ministry , they don’t care if they get families they care that they are raised in the church. There is nothing like being someone’s token brag so they can let everyone know how they saved you . Adoption is not an answer to pregnancy or birth . They only see black and white . I have been told over and over that no child could be regrettable. They use them as punishment for sex and can’t get that a punishment is absolutely not something you want . I also work in /w surgery. That video shows a fetus that is clearly 4 or around . That is when birth defects and co morbidities are usually diagnosed. I have heard them say mothers should die for their babies . So the fetus that will not survive has more agency than the person pregnant.

craft and activism go together and always will!!!! you may share your opinion but if it goes against human rights AND is misinformed, expect backlash!!!

I remember when this whole debacle happened and I was just so devastated. She seemed like a genuinely sweet person and I loved her patterns. It makes me really sad that some women are so deeply entrenched in patriarchy that they want their own and other women's rights taken away.

yes, im so glad more people are talking about this again. i remember when they first posted that story and was absolutely horrified. so grateful for the others in the community who spoke about it and even made a raffle fundraiser. we can never let this be forgotten. everyone deserves body autonomy. no matter what.

What bothers me the most is that abortion is made illegal but there aren't options put in their place. It's not as of I see any outreach like, "We'll help you take care for or help you find a good home for your baby!" Abortion clinics shouldn't have been made illegal in the first place but since they are then they should be replaced with other solutions. People seem to love children and want to protect them until they're born.

I remember studying con law for the bar exam and watching SCOTUS overturn just pages of my notes. Great video, misinformation is a dangerously powerful thing.

Hayhaycrochet was the first account I followed when I started learning crochet, Im surprised I never heard of this controversy. However I did notice something else that gave me a weird vibe and made me decide to unfollow, she posted one time on her story that she found some manga at a thrift store or something and it was a romance between a 17 year old student and their 37 year old teacher...I really dont know where her morals lie

Its so strange that she can respect the choice of people's choice of unfollowing her, but not the choice of their OWN BODIES Edit: stop trying to reason with the prolifer person in the comments, it's not a real conversation happening there. stop waisting your time since they are only spewing out the same rhetoric as the others, not looking for understanding each other, just hate and "ratioing" others. it hurts to see that even when someone tries to have a mutual conversation, they just resort to the same propaganda-like talking points. wishing you guys a good day ❤️

When I was around 14 years old, I had to hold a presentation on abortion. Going into my research, I was already leaning to be pro-life, because I grew up very conservatively and did have zero education on the matter. While researching, I sadly stumbled across several organizations that were pro-life and that traumatized my teenage self with videos and pictures of premature birth with alive fetuses being delivered as well as detailed personal reports by women with failed abortions who had to hear their supposed “clump of cells” cry out after being removed. I now know that all of this was and is propaganda and that these premature babies were much older than was suggested. Still, I concluded my research with a pro-life statement and even read one of those propaganda articles out loud to my class. To this day, I am in horror about how the teachers didn’t even flinch. I got a full mark. Not even one point reduced. 99 % of my presentation was about abortion in a historical perspective, so in that aspect it was highly accurate - but this last bit should have been called out right then and there as misinformation and propaganda but it wasn’t. I was Holding the presentation in my religion class. Wonder why the teacher found my presentation to be “brilliant”… I am 24 now, pregnant myself and this video was a hard watch. I am pro choice and realized I always would’ve been if I had been given the proper resources. For that reason, I believe it to be important to call our creators that spread the same type of misinformation that manipulated me myself back then. Ofc no one deserves to receive death threats, but I am glad to see that other creators were quick to point out the false information being spread. I just wish more would’ve taken the time to provide accurate sources that disprove the pro-life post so that people stumbling across it, could’ve had the chance to instantly fact check. I am honestly kind of shocked that that type of misinformation had been able to persist time and that it still exists and is being believed. Ten years ago, the internet just wasn’t as vast or easily navigated as today. It’s much easier to find independent sources today than it was for 14-year-old me. So, I really wonder, what is it, that makes people believe that type of propaganda so intensely? I am pregnant with a little daughter and I am glad to no end that Germany provides pro-choice healthcare. If I was living in a red state in the US, I would’ve moved as soon as I found out I was pregnant. I am honestly scared for other women and what’s to come in the future…

I was raised to believe that there is absolutely nothing in me that makes me any better than anyone else. Mainly because I am 2nd generation Italian. My grandpa was fresh off the boat here and he had to work hard to get every dime he had. He and my grandma raised 6 kids, sent them all to Catholic school. Funny enough, only 2 stayed Catholic and it wasn't my mother. My mother and my dad taught me that to get anything in life you had to work for it, and that no one was better than me, and I wasn't better than anyone else. That underneath all our different skin colors, we all bleed red. It didn't matter that their best friend loved a man, because it didn't affect them or us, that women had the right to say no, but so did men, that men could stay home and raise the children just as well as a woman could. Nothing phased us really. As I grew up, I made my mind up that if women can say no, then that means, I can sure as hell say no to a pregnancy if it was unwanted, if it was jeopardizing my health, or it was ectopic. As an adult, a wife and mother of 1, trying for 5 years, long, mentally hard years to have another child, we lost 4 pregnancies out of the 4, 2 had to have a DNC. I don't wish those on anyone, especially on someone who has never given birth before. We did eventually, during the 6th year finally get pregnant again with a baby that stuck around after I was on hormones and bed rest the first 16 weeks. My boys are 6.5 years apart, I wish they were closer together, but, it worked out the way it did. The laws on our books at that time, had we not had Roe v. Wade as law, I would not have been able to get those life saving DNC's that were needed. I would have bled out, right there, in the hallway of the emergency room of my local Hospital while my doctors watched because by law, they wouldn't have been able to remove the offending tissue. Those were the laws on the Michigan Constitution. Thankfully, our governor has been able to overturn that law and a new law has been put into effect to make the procedure legal.

So TW for some really disturbing imagery, but when I was a kid, a teacher I trusted told me that how babies were aborted was that they were turned around in the womb and dragged out feet first and the head would stay in the birth canal so that they were technically "unborn" so that this didn't count as murder, and then they would jam scissors into the back of the skull into the brain to kill the fetus. I spent years terrified of the procedure because I thought that was how all of them were and I was misled into thinking the very second you get pregnant it's an instant recognizable baby and not that it started to look like a baby over time. It wasn't until later that an actual abortion doctor told me that no abortion is ever done like that and late term abortions are almost exclusively wanted pregnancies that have gone horribly wrong and if there were any possible way they can save the baby outside the womb they'd do everything in their power to do so, but if the procedure is being done at all, most likely it's already too late to save it. I think that and learning what an embryo actually is spared me so much stress and trauma that I'd been living with my entire life and I'm kind of disgusted that a trusted adult told me this blatant misinformation.

29:00 It is about their body. People don’t offer their bodies for their fetuses. Fetuses are unsentinent. Fetuses are never more important than the actual pregnant person. That pregnant person has feelings and thoughts, unlike the fetus. If you are saying that an unsentinent being is more important than a sentinent woman, you can not say that you are pro-women. You are not. You are pro-control. You are prioritizing the possible life of an unsentinent being higher than that of a sentinent human. That is not good

I’m very late to this video however I’m one of the crochet businesses that messaged you about the whole thing thanking you for speaking out when this was all happening, the face I made when I first saw that video in that animation I can’t even recreate I told you I’m not in a safe place to speak out, which is still true today so once again thank you for being a voice for those of us who can’t speak on this

thanks for covering this more in-depth than I have seen online. but I will continue to feel absolutely 0 sympathy for her. dangerous bigots deserve to be uncomfortable. she was literally spreading violent propaganda.

I remember when this whole thing happened! Since then she’s gained so many followers because she swept it under the rug by deleting comments. I’m glad you’re shining a light on this.

Seeing those Facebook posts made my blood boil. I think a big reason why Facebook is such a hotbed for that type of misinformation (aside from the fact that Facebook themselves often just turns a blind eye to content like that for the sake of generating engagement on the platform) is the fact that the platform doesn't really have any way to indicate negative engagement. Places like KZfaq and Reddit, for example, have dislikes (even if they're not visible without external add-ons) and downvotes that, in theory, allow for hostile content or misinformation to have less reach in the community.

I remember when she posted that, I always had a bit of a weird feeling about her and that just confirmed it for me why I didn’t really like her. I was so so mad about it and especially shocked because so many people still follow her.

the idea of life at conception is so funny because you might not even be ovulating yet but i guess the sperm is all that matters to these people!

as someone with pcos and a higher risk of needing an abortion at some point in my life, it's disappointing to see someone i followed posting misinformation and trying to essentually tell me that i'm a bad person for needing access to one. i had no idea about any of this and it makes me sick to my stomach hearing about it. i always got a bad vibe from her but thought i was being silly. apparently not.

It always “pro life” to have a baby born regardless if the parent wants to or not. But. It’s never pro life to feed the children in places like Gaza and in poverty. It’s never pro life to protest against abusive social workers who have blood on their hands. It’s never pro life to advocate for gun control to prevent school shootings. It’s never pro life to give all children an education and the chance to be educated. It’s never pro life to provide healthcare to parents or children once the labor process is done. It’s never pro life to provide children the necessary medical treatment and medication they need to live a full life It’s never pro life to fund for a cure for cancer It’s never pro life to respond to the world’s economy that’s currently going into the toilet. It’s never pro life to care for a living human being once it’s *out* of the womb. Period.

Her comment about how overturning Roe v Wade wouldn't impact life-saving medical care didn't age well...

Yeah, no... those that have the power and took our rights away, and those who carry water for them because of "their heart", or their fee-fees, deserve every bit of crap that falls on them. Sorry, not sorry. The amount of suffering of real alive people whose lives are upended by unwanted pregnancy, overrides the "good intentions" or "wanting to protect "Life" of these emotional manipulators and liars. Liars and emotional manipulators brought us to this situation, and I cut them no slack. I'm glad she got it where it hurts. She'll never know the amount of pain that she and others like her have caused, with their "good intentions" and "protecting "Life". Screw her and the horse she rode in on.

So happy someone is finally talking about it, I remember this happening and was disgusted with what she was saying, especially since I’m jewish, by blood, and a teen mom. It’s so crazy how this all just disappeared

IT is absolutely the same, I had a D&E because of an 11 week "spontaneous abortion". The physicians were comfortable with the procedure and I'd like every woman to feel that her health care is going to be effective and as healthy as possible. I will say I had to sign a form that excused the staff if they damaged my uterus or any part of my reproductive organs and when I asked about it I was told it was for older women or women who were experiencing things like cancers. Nonetheless I had to sign! There is no procedure that is handled one way for one group and another way for another group. If it is a D&E that is what they call it and in my view health care professionals should have NO qualms about performing complete health care treatments. End of story.

I have no idea who this person is and very glad to not know of them. Good for you speaking out and for sharing research based information with your viewers ❤ I find America such a bizarre country. ‘Land of the free’ really couldn’t be further from the truth.

Not exactly related, but speaking of insidious naming choices, there is a facility called "My Choice Medical Clinic" located within less than 700 ft of the university campus which I attend. despite the name, they do not offer abortion services or even referral. They supposedly provide "abortion education", which I'm assuming is fear-mongering and misinformation designed to deter people from seeking them out. They are a faith-based organization, but are not transparent about it and may have even lied about it. There is that center and another "pregnancy crisis clinic", yet nowhere with access to abortions within 53 miles. I know I'm lucky to live in a state in which access is legal within even that distance, but the "clinics" really make me upset especially considering the location practically on the campus.

also - I'm shocked she shared that much of misinformation and continued to push further - here, in Poland, Justyna Wydrzyńska literally got SENTENCED for helping with abortion. many people didn't understand this, so I'm saddened how hay hay decided to share misinformation having that big of a platform

I'm training to be an abortion provider and picked up crochet through medical school, I loved how much peace it brought me but also the craftivism that went with it! Thanks for bringing light to this situation and calling out what needed to be called out. Happy to answer questions or help with resources if anyone needs anything sex/repro health related!

Man, my blood started boiling when you talked about that horrible group! I didnt know about this situation, so thank you for speaking on it!

I remember seeing her post and immediately being pissed and unfollowing her. Thank you for the added info!

I support bodily autonomy period, especially for reproductive healthcare, and especially as a disabled person. This BS is exactly why I really cannot even fathom how some people think church and state are separate in the US.

her response reeks of religious bs. "what i know to be true" for me just reads like "what confirms my worldview instilled by authority figures". her victim narrative ("freedom of speech doesn't apply to me i guess" & "i decided to be brave and not keep my head low") is also very religous-minded. obv death threats are not okay, but calling her out was more than warranted.

love u great video thanks for having me voiceover and for anyone out there sharing sharing really bad things on the internet remembers it’s forever and there’s always someone like me saving them!! prochoice 4eva

Like, she's scared? Imagine how scared you'd be if you could be facing life in prison for murder, or being murdered yourself, for getting a medical procedure. Idk, even though id never send someone d*th threats, I honestly couldn't care less about how scared she feels

I have been told by my doctor that the chances of me getting pregnant is low but if it were to happen, it would likely be ectopic and life threading. Every time bills pass banning access to this procedure, I feel closer to death. I was a baby once and they don’t want to save me, a live person, over the idea of a hypothetical baby.

god this is really disappointing. I hate that every online disagreement seems to devolve to death threats and name calling. it's cruel, counterintuitive, and the last thing that will make her want to self reflect and deconstruct her beliefs its a subject that, rightfully, makes people very emotional, but emotions have no place in politics, especially where people's lives are concerned. if I was lying in a hospital bed dead as a door nail with only machines keeping my body alive, and there was someone two wards over who would die without a heart transplant, NO ONE would be allowed to take out my heart and use it to save that person's life without my written permission in life. I'm dead! a literal corpse, and it's _still_ deeply unethical to invade my body without my consent. no one has the right to access your body, even in such a deep and invasive way as pregnancy. not even to stay alive

I might be a bit desensitesed, but I lauged at the video from live action at first . I am a doctor (going into psych, but we still had gynecology at school) and this is NOT how curretage looks like. Yes, it is not a "nice" procedure at all, but ideally you go the pharmacological route, if it is available and your providers don't stall you from getting it. Plus Mama Doctor Jones has good info on it, if anybody is looking for well informed videos on it. Organisations like these really grind my gears, because they look on the issue from one angle only and get angry, if anybody brings up other ones (like healthcare, which is practically impossible to divide from it).

thanks for making this video Emma, it was extremely well done. would love too see more on the intersection of crafting and activism!

I honestly didn’t know about any of this till I saw a fiber friend last year in October and expressed how I love heathers pAtterns 😢 and she politely informed me about everything and can never see her the same 🥺

My father is a "red neck" voted red his entire life becuase thats what everyone else in his family has done. He voted to protect abortion rights because its not his business. He doesnt feel the government should make medical choices for you. Honestly i was surprised but so happily surprised.

Pregnancy is a HUGE paranoia for me, I would genuinely rather die than give birth. I don't dislike children, theyre just a part of life, but if someone doesn't want a child, they DESERVE the right to not have one! Even if I did want children, I still wouldn't have them, I'm disabled and struggle to even take care of myself, let alone another human being who entirely depends on me! And I wouldn't want my child to have a troublesome upbringing due to this, it's completely unnecessary.

I am so excited for this. I remember this situation going on and being in her comment section but she kept deleting comments that went against her opinion

I live in Tennessee and it’s honestly shocking how many people I know got pregnant after roe v wade was over turned. Some of them could travel to Chicago to get the procedure but some of them couldn’t and they’re struggling so bad trying to afford their baby. It also made me realize that so many people literally don’t know how to put a baby up for adoption, it’s always talked about as the alternative but no one ever teaches you how to do it. And I’ve seen a few people that either should never have had a baby because they’re truly terrible people or people that have been forced to stay in abusive relationships because their abuser got them pregnant. Even if they get away from him, they’re still forever tied to them now and it’s just really upsetting.

It feels harsh but these days I cannot feel bad when people voice their bigoted opinions and then get upset when those views get the backlash. Like did you think you were going to going to get love and open arms after you support women getting their rights taken away cause everyone has the right to an opinion? You have that right but it doesn't mean people have to respect you, because they also have that right. I grew up on the internet and maybe that's why I feel this brutal about it but you put something out there and you get it back.

The dramatised video of the “abortion procedure” is literally like the exact same shit we were shown as 14 year olds studying in a christian school. The girl next to me nearly bought into the propaganda

Great video, thank you for taking the time to make this!

thank you for taking the time to make this! i had no ideaaa! her following base is so young and it's scary to think what ppl can do to young people with their platforms!

I remember being horrified by her posts when they first came out. I blocked her, but didn't know the particulars. I have always believed there to be a strong correlation between crafting and activism. This is a very well-put-together video Emma, I appreciate your analysis of the situation.

Thank you for making a video on this. I was not as involved in the crochet scene on social media during this time and had no idea this happened.

thank you for making this, i had no idea - also, this whole situation is emblematic of a lot of classism in the crochet/knit/craft community generally - would be interested to hear your thoughts ab that!

great video! i’d never heard about this before (happened before i got into crocheting) and i’m glad u discussed it. she was one of the first ppl whose tutorials i saw and i saved a bunch of them. i’m glad i never used them, now i’d have to get rid of the pieces, wouldn’t feel right. good job again! even though the topic was heavy, it was interesting to watch (enough for me to take a break from my tv show lol)

I remember seeing her post and was so shocked. I know we all have the right to have our own opinions, but the way she decided to share that type of content is such a shame. Loved this type of content coming from you! Very articulated and interesting.

Honestly people who say "Until it's not about your life anymore" kinda confuse me because like... It's still about my life.... It's in MY body.... And I'm the one who is probably gonna be forced to take care of it.... Besides, a fetus has no concept of reality, it has no want to continue living, or the concept of living itself. Also, people act like "keeping your legs closed" or using birth control will help, and in some cases, yeah. But birth control fails because of how we, as women, have all the materials etc for the child, and the body will fight to keep you fertile. As for men, it's a bit more simple I believe. Going back to the point, "keeping your legs closed" doesn't help anyone, because it insinuates victim blaming. Rape and coercion does exist. "You're pregnant and want an abortion because you never really had a chance to consent in the first place? Should've kept your legs closed!" People act like women get purposefully pregnant JUST to get an abortion. I can assure you, most women get pregnant by accident or by force, and they make the concious decision to not bring a life into the world that they know they cannot care for. "Sign them up for adoption!" Is also a terrible argument, because the adoption system in american SUCKS. Those kids will either get some bad mental issues, or end up on the streets. Point is, these people don't care about children when they're born. They want the title of "saving a life" when they ruin another in the process.

She says “ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages aren’t abortion legally or morally” and yet women have already died because of they couldn’t access abortion to fix them.

28:13 "Treatments for ectopic pregnancies or pre-viable separation when a mothers life is in immediate danger are not abortions". Yikes, this statement aged as good as milk under the summer sun with the Kate Cox case 😬

My baby was born alive at 19+6. It made me actually more supportive of people who need to end their pregnancy, most of those people are part of the infant loss community because they didn't want to go through it, they lost their baby as much as I did.

For background … I am a 66 year old, middle class, white woman. My only child is 32 years old. For the five years preceding his birth, my husband and I experienced (endured?) many uncomfortable, painful, embarrassing and expensive procedures in an attempt to have a biological child. We had sort of given up and made an appointment with the local women’s health clinic to talk with the nurse about adoption. The clinic was also known as the abortion clinic. We were well-dressed (I worked at a bank in the days when we wore suits and my husband was a medical resident - coat and tie). As we approached the front door we were verbally and visually assaulted by the anti-abortion protesters. I felt terrible and almost turned around and skipped our appointment. We wanted to adopt and raise a baby. We are PRO life. I could only imagine how difficult it was for women who had made the incredibly difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy to walk past these protesters and their slogans, and their horrible posters. For just a few minutes that day I did walk in someone else’s shoes and it was awful! I cannot imagine many women choose this procedure as a form of birth control. It is their last option. Sometimes, it is their only option. Unless you have been there, be VERY careful what you say, how strongly you say it, and to whom you say it. This is a very personal decision and it is none of your business.

Thank you so much for making this video! It takes a lot of bravery to take on such a topic and as someone who has only recently joined the fiber arts community: I really appreciate it! I don't want to follow and/or financially support people with such awful views. You are awesome 💜

They want to talk about dehumanising, they don't mention where the foetus lives.

maybe this will make me sound horrible, but i don't care that she got mean comments. i agree that the death threats are bad, but i really have zero sympathy for her otherwise.

I binged a bunch of your videos today and I had to click several times on the subscribe button, (separately under several videos i have watched), because every time I would move on to the next video, i would see that subscribe button is not clicked. I hope that it was just a bug on my side, but thought i d let ya know it happened! Hope no one else has similar problem and will be able to subscribe, support and get notifications from you channel without a problem. Love your stuff, as person who crochets for fun, I didnt know there was so much drama in the community! thank you for your hard work, love your hair!

I wish people would stop trying to make their own religious beliefs into laws.

Men: Your life already exists so it doesn’t matter nearly as much as a possibility of a new life coming into existence. Also Men: I don’t care about the quality of life that person will live, nor do I really care about them. I don’t even care if they live for 24 hours, I just care about them coming into existence. But What I really care about is being able to control your life. ❤

this is such a shame bc i loved her crochet tutorials and follow her on insta

Thank you for talking about this. I recently starting getting back into crochet a few month ago, and this time around ive been looking at inspiration online. Looking through I actually have a few of her tutorials and pins of her work saved. Thank you for talking about this, as I wasn't in the sphere when it happened

Well, now we have seen many many pregnant people end up with non viable pregnancies, and their states have put them at risk and caused medical staff to be forced to wait until they are going septic, which is when your infection has spread to your blood, and literally will die without medical intervention- or they just straight up tell the patient they need to drive hours and hours mid miscarriage to get proper care. A 10-12 year old gave birth a few months ago from SA & i*ncest, if I remember the news story correctly. All those promises of it not impacting those with non viable pregnancies and medical emergencies was BS. And so was the ‘well they can always go to another state for care’ because now some are banning travel for the procedure- and ignoring many do not have the ability to take a cute long weekend to have a medical procedure they may also need to pay for. These people also conveniently gloss over those who are survive to SA and that it is still very difficult to get a conviction for SA, especially if they were in a relationship at the time. Then these people are tied to their r*pist for minimum 18 years and the abuser has the opportunity to re victimize them through child custody and visitation law. And the ones who chime in with adoption, that is extremely stigmatized socially and may result in a loss of familial support (esp housing), friends, and community judgment. But force birthers always act like adoption is so easy and logical, as if our system isn’t already overwhelmed. I had a hysterectomy in 2018 at 22 years old, I had no idea this was coming but it is a weight off my shoulders that even the mythical Virgin Mary had a god damn uterus with which to birth Jesus.

Bring back Roe v Wade!!!!! Such a huge set back for humanity and women. Scientifically a fetus cannot even feel pain untill about 30 week and is just a bundle of cells that looks like a dolphin or bird embryo untill the secod trimester . I got pregnant at 19, and didnt show symtopms untill week 15 about. I was working over 40 hours and walking over 2 miles to and from work, and was denied a abortion. I am now 23 and devasted to see how far back weve stepped,even from 2019..

Thank you for doing this, but for anyone talking about this subject: please do not call them "pro life". They are forced birthers. There are too many examples to list of the ways these people don't care about life (being pro gun, pro death penalty, anti-healthcare, anti-vaxx etc.). They care about control, not about babies or children. Anyone who would force an underage rape victim to give birth does not care one iota about that little girl's life.

thank you for taking the time to make this, i was following her bc i had no idea this happened

Can I just say, I'm so thankful you used the word "procedure" and didn't do tiktok thing to call it afortion or gobortion or something. I always feel brevity of that kind lessens the intensity/seriousness of the subject, so thank you for finding an alternative that's appropriate yet safe for smm!