With the constitutional right to abortion gone, healthcare providers, clinics and millions of Americans are grappling with a new reality. But will it mimic the time before Roe v Wade?
"A variety of horrific things were done to self-induce abortion [back then]," says Flinders University's senior lecturer in US history Prudence Flowers.
Medication abortion, which became legal in the US in 2000 after mifepristone was approved by the FDA, involves taking two different drugs to stop the development of a pregnancy. Outlets like Just the Pill have reported huge increases in people asking for abortion pills. Before Roe, the organisation would typically receive about 20-25 requests a day. As of Wednesday, it had over 260 requests just from Friday.
The current situation in Texas, however, is currently unclear due to a tangled web of abortion laws in the state being in the courts. But it also raises concerns over "decisional privacy", which is a privacy that protects an individual's ability to make decisions about their bodies "without unwarranted interference from the state and from others," Dr Dimopoulos says.
These measures have led to homegrown networks forming to help people operating in restrictive states, whether by providing access to abortion pills or advice on where to safely get an abortion.one-quarter of people who would have had an abortion under Roe will be forced to continue with a pregnancy post-RoeObservers say this will likely entrench existing inequalities for poor Americans who will not have the capacity and resources to travel interstate or access abortion pills online.
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