When the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade later this month, clinics in states with legal abortion will be inundated with patients, creating long waits for in-clinic abortion care. Here's how abortion funds are preemptively addressing the crisis to come:
abortion method and free up brick and mortar clinics to focus on providing in-clinic procedures.
Medication abortion uses two FDA-approved oral medications to end a pregnancy: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone interrupts the flow of the hormone progesterone that sustains the pregnancy, and misoprostol causes contractions to expel the contents of the uterus. The FDA has approved a regimen of one mifepristone pill and four misoprostol pills through 10 weeks of pregnancy.
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