‘Americans buy pills online’

First modification: 07/29/2022 – 12:13

A study published on Thursday, July 28, by the Guttmacher Institute reveals that at least 43 clinics have had to stop performing abortions after the Supreme Court’s decision on June 24.

In just one month, 23 clinics in Texas, five in Oklahoma and five in Alabama have closed or changed their activities. The same has happened with health centers in eight other states.

“In some of these states, abortion was totally prohibited and in others a law came into force that prohibits it at six weeks of pregnancy,” explains Liza Fuentes, one of the researchers at the Guttmacher Institute, to RFI. She points out that in states that now prohibit termination of pregnancy, 80,500 abortions were performed in 2020. “There is a need for abortion services in those states.”

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For women who have the resources, traveling to another state is the only solution to be able to resort to abortion. “Those who cannot travel, continue the unwanted pregnancy or decide to abort on their own,” says Fuentes.

Many then buy “abortion pills” on the black market “online”. “And you don’t know the legal risk, because technically self-inducing an abortion is not illegal in most states, the way the law is implemented and the law itself are two different things,” he adds.

In addition, it is believed that in the next few months or years half of the states in the United States, especially in the conservative South and Center, will ban abortion.