Mexican women come to the rescue

 “Medication abortions” are performed with the use of pills.  The drug used is misoprostol, and it gives women a safe and often cheap method of ending a pregnancy in private.  In Latin America networks of activists help women obtain the pills and often provide medical counseling and support.  

In Mexico abortion is now legal.  Mexican women are helping American women, especially in Texas, gain access to this medication.  On December 16 the FDA said that abortion drugs can be delivered by mail, although several states, including Texas, ban the delivery of pills by mail.  

Fortunately for the women involved, the pills are hard to detect.  

See Natalie Kitroeff’s article in the New York Times, Dec. 21, or the reprint in the Morning Call (Dec. 23, 2021), p. 10.