“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
— Thomas Paine
Prescribing abortion pills online or mailing them in Texas can now land you in jail
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/06/1060160624/prescribing-abortion-pills-online-or-mailing-them-in-texas-can-now-land-you-in-j
By criminalizing the use of telehealth and mail-order prescriptions for the abortion pills, the state seeks to forestall a possible workaround to the shrinking number of reproductive health clinics in Texas.
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Aid Access
for American women gives access to a safe abortion by mail. in the U.S. Aid Access supplies the same two drugs you would take for a medication abortion in a U.S. clinic: mifepristone, which was approved by the FDA as an abortifacient in 2000, and misoprostol, which is also used to treat gastric ulcers. By the first half of 2001, 6 percent of abortions performed outside a hospital used the two medications, according to the Guttmacher Institute; by 2014, that figure was up to 31 percent. After a woman completes an evaluation of her medical history and verifies that she is less than 10 weeks pregnant and lives within one hour of medical help, Gomperts writes a prescription for mifepristone and misoprostol, which is filled and shipped by a pharmacy in India. Medication abortion is widely accepted as a low-risk procedure. Research has found that the rate of serious complications requiring hospitalization is less than half of 1 percent when the drugs are taken in the first eight weeks of pregnancy, and FDA clinical trial data shows that failure to end the pregnancy happens in less than 1 percent of cases within 10 weeks.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/women-on-web-safe-abortion-mail/573322/
Vessel follows Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves
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who set sail on a ship to provide abortions in international waters, where a country’s bans do not apply. Gomperts later founded Women on Web, an online support service that helps women obtain and safely take medications to induce abortion. She trains women to give themselves abortions using WHO-researched protocols with pills, and creates an underground network of empowered activists who trust women to handle abortion themselves.
Women on Waves – How Can I Get Misoprostol?
How to do an Abortion with Pills (misoprostol, cytotec)?
The best and safest way a woman can do an abortion herself until the 12th week of pregnancy is with the use of two medicines called Mifepristone (also known as the abortion pill, RU 486, Mifegyn, Mifeprex), and Misoprostol (also known as Cytotec, Arthrotec, Oxaprost, Cyprostol, Mibetec, Prostokos or Misotrol). If you live in a country where there is no access to safe abortion services and you would like to obtain a medical abortion with Mifepristone and Misoprostol, please go to Women on Web (www.womenonweb.org). Using Misoprostol (or Cytotec) alone to cause an abortion will be successful 90% of the time. If it is not effective the first time, you can try again after 3 days. The information is based on research by the World Health Organization.
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