Some US women are taking reproductive matters into their own hands: They're ordering abortion by mail
Some US women are taking reproductive matters into their own hands: They're ordering abortion pills by mailIn Aid Access' first year of operation, 21,000 U.S. women reached out to the online organization launched in March 2018 that offers abortion pills internationally. Requests came from all over the country – especially states where abortion is tightly restricted.
Medication abortion before eight weeks' gestation accounted for 24.6% of all abortions in the USA in 2015, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The FDA said taking the combination of pills in the first trimester has a success rate of 95% to 99%. Ingrid Skop, an OB-GYN based in San Antonio and chairman-elect of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, expressed concerns about women with ectopic pregnancies obtaining abortion pills from providers not meeting the FDA's criteria.
"The more people are restricted, the more likely that they are going to try to manage an abortion on their own," said Gretchen Ely, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo specializing in access to abortion and contraception."So instead of it being a pre-Roe situation with objects, they’re going to be looking to manage it with medication. More often, it will be unsupervised."Missouri won't renew license of St.
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