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What Back Alley? These Women Say DIY Abortion Can Be Empowering

The imagery makes Jill Adams, founder of the Self-Induced Abortion Legal Team, shake her head. “If I never see another coat hanger at a press conference again…” she said in a recent interview, trailing off wistfully. Adams is part of a new movement that advocates for a woman’s right to perform her own abortion. The women refer to home abortion as “self-managed” or “self-induced”—the sinister-sounding “back alley” isn’t in their vocabulary—and argue that it is both safer and more accessible than ever before.

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