If Roe falls, the U.S. Postal Service could become one of the nation’s largest abortion providers. But there are major caveats to making the dream of abortion by mail a reality for everyone who needs it. bridgetgillard reports
Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images On the first day of September last year, Texas enacted one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, banning the procedure as early as six weeks. Later that month, with less fanfare, Governor Greg Abbott signed another bill, this time banning abortion medication from being sent through the mail in the state.
Public awareness of the safety and availability of medication abortion — mifepristone and misoprostol taken in sequence, which is commonly referred to together as the “abortion pill” and can be administered through ten weeks of pregnancy — has been on the rise in the United States. Medication abortion accounted for more than half of all abortions administered in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
There are major caveats, however, to making the dream of abortion by mail a reality for everyone who needs it. Not unlike abortion care, the USPS is another essential service that has been compromised by neglect and politicization over many decades. Delivery times have slowed because of lack of funding, and the areas that are more affected are likely western states and parts of Texas and Florida — some of the states where abortion trigger bans are potentially about to be enacted.
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