How the US scrapp{-}{-}{-}{-}ing of Roe v Wade threatens the global medical abortion revolution

In 2021, a 20 year old woman in Hyderabad, India, discovered she was pregnant. A well educated, city girl, she was nevertheless afraid of the stigma attached to unmarried pregnancy and did not know if she could legally terminate the pregnancy. Around the same time, another young couple living together in Bengaluru were in a similar predicament.“Both women were not ready for a child but completely clueless about the options they had, and the gestation period up to which abortion is legally allowed in India,” says Anusha Pilli, a doctor who practises privately in Hyderabad. Pilli helped both women to get medical abortions before their first trimesters ended.Medical abortion —the means of terminating early pregnancy with one or two orally administered drugs—has been revolutionary. It is estimated to prevent millions of unsafe abortions a year globally, and tens of thousands of maternal deaths.1 Over 99% of deaths from abortion occur…
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