Reproductive-rights website says New Orleans women are buying abortion pill on the streets

[theHandpuppet]

Reproductive-rights website says New Orleans women are buying abortion pill on the streets
By Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on June 18, 2014 at 12:38 PM, updated June 19, 2014 at 11:53 AM

According to RH Reality Check, a website that supports women's reproductive autonomy, some desperate women in New Orleans have begun buying the abortion pill on the streets. People in support of abortion access say it's a worrisome trend that they believe will only worsen. A law that Gov. Bobby Jindal just signed requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges to a nearby hospital is expected to shut down the only abortion clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

The RH Reality Check piece quotes Amy Irvin, a member of the New Orleans Abortion Fund, which helps women pay for abortions. "There's already anecdotal evidence here in New Orleans that the abortion pill is being sold on the street," she says. "Women don't necessarily know who they're buying it from, and they're certainly not getting the information they need to use it properly and safely."

That concern is echoed by Sylvia Cochran, who operates the Women's Healthcare Center. She mentioned a woman who ended up in ER after taking such a pill. Whatever the pill was, it left the pregnancy intact...

...Most times the clothes hanger is used to illustrate the dangerous lengths women will go to in trying to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. But the suggestion that women are going to unscrupulous drug peddlers is a new wrinkle....

MORE at http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2014/06/reproductive-rights_website_sa.html

[smallcat88]

1. And so it begins

Backstreet abortions just around the corner.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Yep. This is only a preview of things to come.

And yet it's a battle to keep threads about reproductive rights from scrolling right off the page.