With abortion rights on thin ice, medication abortions take center stage.
"I think we can see that making abortion illegal doesn’t limit the need for abortion," Abigail Aiken, who is also the lead investigator on the study, told ABC News,"it just shifts where individuals can find care."
The good news about self-managed medication abortions, Aiken told ABC News, is that they appear safe and effective for most women who use them early in pregnancy. Recent U.S.-based studies have "I have some concern that … regardless of whether their self-assessment [for gestational age] says they’re eligible, they’ll use the pills—because they’re desperate,” Daniel Grossman, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California San Francisco, told ABC News.under murder charges after their abortions came to light.
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