• AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Tens of thousands of women who are not pregnant are ordering abortion pills just in case they might need them someday, especially in states where access is threatened, according to a study published on Tuesday.

    Since then, it has received over 42,000 requests, averaging 118 per day, said Dr. Abigail Aiken, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author of the study.

    Advance provision requesters were more likely than those already pregnant to be 30 or older, white and childless, and to live in urban neighborhoods with lower poverty rates than the national average.

    That might be partly because Aid Access offers free or reduced-price services to pregnant patients who need financial assistance, while advance provision requesters were expected to pay the full $110 cost, Dr. Aiken said.

    Dr. Aiken said a subset of advance provision requesters — 937 women, two-thirds of them in states with abortion bans or restrictions — answered follow-up questions.

    Abortion rights supporters say prescribing it in case of future need, like antibiotics for traveler’s diarrhea, increases access and underscores that the pills are safe, as many studies show.

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  • Apathy TreeEnglish
    4•10 months ago

    I’ve thought about doing this in case any of my friends ever need it…

    I saw the writing on the wall and got my tubes tied in 2014, but I already knew I never wanted kids, so it was an easy choice. But very few other women are in that boat… so having it around might be good.

    I used to keep plan b for friends, before it was OTC (let’s hear it for planned parenthood!). Never got used, thankfully, but it was there if it was needed.

    • @[email protected]
      2•10 months ago

      "Sometimes I listen outside closed doors, a thing I never would have done in the time before. I don’t listen long, because I don’t want to be caught doing it. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora I hat she wouldn’t debase herself like that.

      Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing?

      Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice.

      With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you.

      They were shelling peas; even through the almost-closed door I could hear the light clink of the hard peas falling into the metal howl. I heard Rita, a grunt or a sigh, of protest or agreement.

      Anyways, they’re doing it for us all, said Cora, or so they say. If I hadn’t of got my tubes tied, it could of been me, say I was ten years younger. It’s not that bad. It’s not what you’d call hard work.

      Better her than me, Rita said, and I opened the door."

      Atwood, M. (1985). The Handmaid’s Tale. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 21-22.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•10 months ago

    minimum shelf life is 18 months - is that at room temperature? does the black market for abortions come equipped with medical-grade freezers?