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The Supreme Court allows access to Mifepristone, the abortion pill, to continue for now.
We deserve to have control over our lives. That means having control over our bodies, and having abortion access.
We can’t stress this enough: You can have a safe abortion at home.
This article reported that two-thirds of Americans think mifepristone should stay on the market. “Just under half, 47 percent, say...
On Sunday, FiveThirtyEight published data showing that there were at least 10,000 fewer legal abortions in July and August than...
Requests for self-managed abortions via pills increased in 30 states following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade,...
I've had three abortions. The first one happened in 1999, when I was 21 years old. I was in college,...
Nearly 6 months since the Supreme Court decision overturned the federal right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health...
The activists behind a recent installation about self-managed abortion in Texas knew they’d “have to take certain precautions” because of...
Two top antiabortion groups have crafted and successfully lobbied for state legislation to ban or further restrict the predominant way...
In June 2020, Carol’s life changed. “I found out I was pregnant, and then my husband, who is an alcoholic,...
If it wasn’t clear before the Supreme Court’s decision greenlighting Texas’ draconian abortion ban, it’s certainly clear now that we...
Thanks to medication abortion, people in Texas and elsewhere can and are able to have safe, self-managed abortions at home...
A study, led by Dr. Abigail Aiken at the University of Texas at Austin, took advantage of a natural pandemic...
Between 1969 and 1973, feminists in Chicago with no formal medical training formed an underground abortion service called Jane that...
Medication abortions have are a safe and accessible method of terminating pregnancy, but they have been targeted by onerous FDA...
A growing number of people are using pills to end their pregnancies without involving medical providers. Advocates say this practice...
The pandemic has brought into sharper focus the inequities and outright gaps in people's access to health care of all...
Coronavirus is making it harder for people to access abortion services, especially for those who live in one of the...
Nowadays it is safe and easy to induce an early abortion at home thanks to the advent of medication abortion,...
The global response to the spread of COVID-19 has changed life dramatically. Evolving restrictions on travel and physical distancing mean...
As abortion restrictions across the country seemingly grow by the day, self-managed abortion is over three times as prevalent in...
The number of abortions performed in American clinics was lower in 2017 than in any year since abortion became legal...
A new report from Guttmacher suggests an upward trend in women trying to self-induce; the organization's latest survey on abortion...
On Monday, 75 organizations, doctors, and researchers joined that public fight, signing an open letter that stands behind the work...
Four months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned online service Aid Access to stop shipping abortion pills...
The US Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on organizations that sell medical abortion pills over the internet. In...
On the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, amid a landscape in which the fate of abortion rights becomes increasingly...
The imagery makes Jill Adams, founder of the Self-Induced Abortion Legal Team, shake her head. “If I never see another...
With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s crucial that we consider what would happen...
Are federal rules that limit access to “medical abortion” justified? According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the answer...
The political fight over abortion will increasingly be a battle over the mailing of pills into Republican-run states.
“There are organizations and legislators who want to make what I just said a crime,” abortion rights advocate Renee Bracey...
Self-managed abortion is not a substitute for having full reproductive rights. But it’s one of the best tools we have...
“What if anyone who needs to end a pregnancy could do so with safe, effective medication available without a prescription,...
Finally, a small glimmer of good news for women: The ACLU is working to make the abortion pill more accessible...
The coat hanger – often with a red line through it – is a powerful feminist symbol. Conjuring images of...
New research is showing the impact of Supreme Court decision in June overturning constitutional abortion rights and allowing abortion bans...
At a time when access to abortion is being restricted on many fronts, advocates say being able to terminate a...
