A majority of states already have some sort of restriction on medication abortion. But there are no states that have banned the medication outright. People will be taking on new risks each other, but there's going to be an underground passageway of these pills,. That's just a reality that couldn't and didn't exist before.
It’s safe and easy to end a pregnancy during the first trimester using a pair of FDA-approved pills. Accessing them is the latest abortion battleground. Vox's Rachel Cohen explains.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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