If near-total bans like the ones recently passed in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Ohio are allowed to take effect, more pregnant people could find self-managed abortion their only option.īut some are choosing self-managed abortion even when they can legally have the procedure at a clinic. Wade on the horizon, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for many Americans to get an abortion from a medical provider. With states passing ever-stricter abortion laws, dozens of clinics closing in recent years, and a potential challenge to Roe v.
Advocates say the number is likely to grow even more in the years to come.
Though there’s no comprehensive data on the phenomenon, experts say a growing number of pregnant people are, like Marie, choosing to self-manage their abortions, getting pills or herbs over the internet, through friends or non-clinical providers, and taking them on their own. One thing she didn’t do was call her doctor. She used a sock filled with rice, heated in the microwave, as a heating pad to relieve the cramps, and put on soothing music to help her calm down. Just like a bad cycle.” (Marie asked that her last name not be used because of legal concerns.) When the uterine contractions started, Marie recalled, she experienced “a lot of bleeding, a lot of pain, a lot of cramps. After Marie decided to take medication to end her pregnancy, it took several days for the pills to work.
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