Study Finds Abortions Outside Healthcare System Spiked After Roe v. Wade Fell
Soumyabrata Roy/Getty ImagesThe number of people who terminated their pregnancies without the involvement of the formal U.S. health care system skyrocketed immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, according to a new study published by JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.The study refers to these as “self-managed abortions,” which can include methods ranging from low-risk use of abortion medication to the dangerous use of self-harm in order to terminat