The use of abortion pills—mifepristone and misoprostol—can simply, safely and effectively end a pregnancy at home, with or without medical supervision. CarrieNBaker reports:
In fact, there have been no successful prosecutions of women who self-managed an abortion using pills in early pregnancy, believes Dr. Beverly Winikoff, President of“When talking about risk, it’s important to understand the broader context,” says Elisa S. Wells, MPH, co-founder and co-director of the organization Plan C. “For instance, we know ofwhere people have faced prosecution for doing their own abortion—but these occurred over a time span of more than 30 years.
“When you do the math—dividing 21 prosecutions by the tens of thousands of people who have managed their own abortions—you can see that the risk is actually very, very small,” added Wells. But any district attorney in any state can find a law to use to prosecute someone who self-manages their abortion. One of the earliest prosecutions on record for self-managing abortion with abortion pills occurred in Massachusetts in 2007, and there have been two cases in New York as recently as 2011—butVulnerability to criminal prosecution also depends on who you are. Unsurprisingly,low-income women using Medicaid, immigrant women and women of color with these kinds of charges.
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