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Self-Managed Abortions Surge After Dobbs

What: A study in JAMA Network Open finds (unsurprisingly) that reports of self-managed abortions have increased 40% since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. The authors surveyed more than 14,000 women under age 50.

Why it matters: “The new study suggests that self-managing an abortion with abortion pills has become more common, rising from about 18% of attempts pre-Dobbs to 24% post-Dobbs. However, many other ineffective, and sometimes unsafe, methods were also common. More than a quarter of women who attempted to self-manage an abortion said they took herbs, more than 1 in 5 said that they hit themselves in the stomach and nearly 1 in 5 said they used alcohol or other substances.”

Source: CNN

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