Immediately after Roe v. Wade fell earlier this year, a network of activists—mostly American expats between the ages of 30 and 80 who live in Mexico—began ferrying at-home abortion pills from across the border into states with severe anti-abortion laws.
, and we'll continue in a moment.Stephania Talardrid has just published a major piece of reporting in the New Yorker about an underground network delivering abortion medications to women in states that now prohibit them. Now remind us of what these pills are, what are the medications and how do they do their work?We're talking about two sets of pills, mifepristone, which blocks progesterone, and misoprostol, which causes uterine contractions.
That's one that sticks with me because it just feels like in other states or under a better law system, her grandmother could have taken her to a sexual reproductive health clinic where they could have had a conversation with her. Taught her about condoms, given her resources, given her a phone number to call, given her birth control and sent her home feeling empowered with more information. Instead, she had to go to some random person she's never met, house.
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