Home Pregnancy Tests Could Put Women in Danger
for the test to be widely marketed in the US. When Crane first pitched her design to pharmaceutical company executives, they explicitly told her they weren’t interested in creating a home pregnancy test; they were worried women would secretly take these tests when they didn’t want to be pregnant, thereby increasing the number of abortions.
In contrast, before pregnancy tests were widely available, most women didn’t learn they were pregnant until they were at least eight weeks along. A doctor’s visit was the most common way to learn you were pregnant, and women were advised to wait until they missed one, if not two, periods to schedule a medical appointment.
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