Research shows that medication abortions accounted for almost two-thirds of abortions last year. Efforts to restrict access to the drugs will be the focus of an upcoming Supreme Court case. NBC News' Dasha Burns reports.
“IT MAY NOT BE TOO LATE TO SAVE YOUR PREGNANCY.” That message blares from a website awash in pink. The site, run by the anti-abortion group Heartbeat International, describes what it calls “abortion pill reversal,” based on the disputed idea that it’s possible to undo the first step of a medication abortion by taking the hormone progesterone within 24-72 hours.
I took the abortion pill’ — whatever kind of pressure or fear or frustration that was going on, they regret it, and so we have an obligation to try to help them at their request,” said Dr. William Lile, an OB-GYN based in Florida who is on the network’s medical advisory board. But many doctors and researchers disagree.
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