This abortion method doesn’t involve doctors — and many of them consider it safe

Dr. Maya Bass would visit Oklahoma monthly to help provide abortions at a local clinic. Since the state banned abortions after <em>Roe v. Wade</em> was overturned in 2022, she found another way to support patients with limited access to abortions.

A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the global pandemic in 2020 and the fall of Roe in 2022, has many U.S. doctors changing their views.

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