As abortion access shrinks in the U.S., more people will likely turn to medication abortion
People have to wait between four and five weeks to do a pregnancy test to make sure the pills worked. This timing puts many people past the window for medical abortion. If a woman experiences heavy bleeding and passes some tissue, then it is very unlikely she is still pregnant. But in some rare cases, the pregnancy will continue; medication abortion won’t terminate an ectopic pregnancy, for example.
Grossman says that it is reasonable to think this would work, and Tucker says she has seen some people have success on the second try. But people would need to obtain and take the second round of pills within the 10-week window, Tucker says.Traditionally, abortion restrictions have targeted providers and not patients. In the case of Aid Access, providers are out of the country and therefore not at risk for prosecution.
Dr. Debora Bartz, an ob-gyn at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, stresses that people don’t need to tell their doctors if they did a medication abortion. “There is no way for a health care professional to be able to distinguish between a natural miscarriage or a medication abortion if the patient herself doesn’t disclose that she took these medications,” Bartz says—a point on which Grossman and Tucker both agree.
If people are worried about their legal risk, they can reach out to the free and confidential hotline called the
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