Where to get abortion pills and how to use them
Editor’s Note: The following article from the MIT Technology Review was written before the June 24th Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, so you will see that it refers to the future possibility of overturning Roe V. Wade. Nevertheless, it contains information more timely and useful than ever.
“By Antonio Regalado
June 15, 2022
“If the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the 1973 legal decision that enshrined abortion as a constitutional right, parts of the country will be ready to plunge into a reproductive-rights dark age in which doctors are forbidden from providing any abortions, in some states even in cases of rape, incest, or a fetus with genetic abnormalities.
But there’s still one huge loophole: most of these pending state laws exempt the person seeking the abortion from any penalties. The likely result is an increase in the number of people ending pregnancies at home using so-called abortion pills.
“Abortion pills are safe and widely prescribed by doctors, and the best way to use them is under medical supervision, with checkups before and after. But with the chance that Roe may soon be overturned, leaving individual states to make their own rules, people want to know how to get the pills and use them on their own, a process known as a “self-managed” abortion.
“MIT Technology Review spoke to medical professionals and reproductive-rights lawyers to find out how the abortion pills work, where to get them, and what the risks are of using them without a doctor’s care.”
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“Where to get abortion pills and how to use them“
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