American women have ordered 21,000 so-called “abortion pills” from a charity that provides such pills in the past six months, The Guardian reports. Three quarters of those orders came from women in states with strict abortion laws.
Although abortion is technically legal in all 50 states, the reality is that several states have made abortion difficult by writing strict regulatory laws. In some states, for example, laws regulating who can perform abortions have essentially left those states with one, or even zero, abortion clinics. And the laws are getting tighter: in the past few weeks, Alabama, Georgia, and other states have passed so-called “fetal heartbeat” laws that effectively ban all abortions.
To circumvent those laws, women in those states, and others, are turning to Aid Access, a charity that provides women, particularly those in jurisdictions with onerous abortion laws, with the abortifacient pills mifepristone and misoprostol, which can end a pregnancy at up to ten weeks.
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