“Now we’re seeing abusive partners who can threaten someone’s livelihood and their families with a stack of civil and criminal penalties and use that as a way to ruin their life, where this specific tool just didn’t exist before Dobbs,” Durrani said, stressing that this reality very much applies to young people too, as evidenced in the spike in calls to The Hotline. “Before Dobbs, people may not have had the option to get an abortion because of social stigma or community impact, but now they’re facing potential entanglements with law enforcement, with prosecutors. That wasn’t even an option before Dobbs. It is the most horrifying tool abusers can use and we are now seeing it a lot.”
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