Some Women 'Self-Manage' Abortions as Access Recedes

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Good piece about women in Texas or other states without abortion rights self-managing their own abortions. In much of the world without abortion access, women do this with misoprostol alone, because it's widely available while mifepristone is harder to get

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Some Women ‘Self-Manage’ Abortions as Access Recedes
Information and medications needed to end a pregnancy are increasingly available outside the health care system.
10:54 AM · Aug 8, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/health/abortion-self-managed-medication.html

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In states that have banned abortion, some women with unwanted pregnancies are pursuing an unconventional workaround: They are “self-managing” their abortions, seeking out the necessary know-how online and obtaining the medications without the supervision of a clinic or a doctor.

At first glance, the practice may recall the days before Roe v. Wade, when women too often were forced to take risky measures to end an unwanted pregnancy. But the advent of medication abortion — accomplished with drugs, rather than in-office procedures — has transformed reproductive care, posing a significant challenge to anti-abortion legislation.

Even before the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, medication abortions accounted for more than half of abortions in the United States. Federal regulators made access to the pills even easier during the pandemic by dropping the requirement for an in-person visit and allowing the drugs to be mailed to patients after a virtual appointment.

But many states never allowed telehealth abortion, and new laws prohibiting abortion apply to all forms of the procedure, including medications. So women in increasingly restrictive parts of the country are procuring the pills any way they can, often online, despite state prohibitions.

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2. I do love the "no paywall" links, & managed to get a clean copy of this and one other linked article

Many thanks. Added to my files.

I wanted to read the linked article about IVF treatments (you just know bans are coming in the medieval states) but NYT decided at that point I needed to subscribe to continue.

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