Three years after Roe fell, more women are managing their abortions without doctors By Abby Wendle, Liana Simstrom Published June 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT ...

And possession of them without a prescription can result in jail time. States have also sued shield law providers — doctors who prescribe abortion pills to states with abortion restrictions.

Out of the Clinic, Onto the Internet Throughout the 2010s, American women started to lose access to doctors who could give them an abortion. During this period, states passed hundreds of new ...

Starting in the mid-1980s, women in Latin America — a region that had widespread abortion restrictions — noticed that miscarriage was a side effect of misoprostol. Underground networks emerged there ...