Imagine that you’re pregnant, a few weeks in, and you decide you want an abortion. You walk into a retail pharmacy, and pick up a package on the shelf that says “medication abortion kit.” You buy it and walk out, and end your early pregnancy at home.
“It’s time that the general public understands that this could be a reality,” says Dr. Daniel Grossman, part of the research team that published a study Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine exploring this issue.
Over-the-counter abortion medication is not a reality currently. … And in fact, there are more than a dozen states where abortion through any method and at any point of pregnancy is banned.
Again, an over-the-counter medication abortion kit does not yet exist. And it’s hard to imagine in the current political context.
President Trump has appeared unmotivated in his second term to act on abortion, but Republicans in Congress who oppose abortion have begun to be more aggressive in recent weeks. Sen. Josh Hawley, R.-Mo., introduced a bill to remove the full approval of mifepristone, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R.-La. , announced an investigation into the drugmakers behind mifepristone.
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