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Ghoul alert: Activists are training medical students to do abortions using papayas

Well, Merry Christmas to you, to!

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/944254780871979009

According to the article, the medical students are learning how to perform the procedures on papayas, because if you’re going to perform a back-alley abortion in some Handmaid’s Tale future America, you totally want the medical provider to have practiced on something as lifelike as a tropical fruit:

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https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/944255001429467137

Here’s a teacher and student in action, via The Guardian:

There will be kits for it?

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/944255356452196354

No thanks:

https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/944332526046384129

https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/944260154723323904

https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/944298267239739393

And this:

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