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WOMEN should be allowed to carry out early abortions at home, medical leaders claim. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has called for easier access to essential healthcare, such as contraception and terminations. It says women should be offered a Skype or phone consultation with a doctor. They would then collect the tablets from their nearest pharmacy and be able to take them from the “comfort and convenience” of their own home. The abortion pill is two separate medicines, mifepristone and misoprostol, which are administered separately. Until last year, those wanting to terminate a pregnancy before ten weeks' gestation...

A group of women in Chicago say they operated a covert abortion network for years in the 1960s and early 1970s, skirting the then-federal ban on abortion by discreetly sending messages to one another about abortion services. “Pregnant? Don’t want to be? Call Jane,” read a 1969 newspaper advertisement from the “Jane Collective,” The New York Times reported Sunday. Formerly known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, the Jane Collective helped women have abortions before Roe V. Wade made it legal in 1973, according to TheNYT. Roe v. Wade gave women the permission to abort until the point...

When the Supreme Court reviews the Texas abortion case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (formerly Cole), abortion providers’ deadly game will have prompted a discussion about what is more important: “access” to the current back alley of abortion now offered by an industry that puts profits over people, or commonsense health and safety standards the Court has historically supported. The stakes are high—life and death—and encompass more than whether the Texas provisions in House Bill (HB) 2 are constitutional. To be sure, the law Texas passed in 2013—requiring abortion clinics to meet commonsense health and safety standards and requiring abortion...

If the famous pro-choice litany is “safe, legal, and rare,” the logical endpoint of a culture of abortion on demand is none of the above. Legal abortion was supposed to end “back-alley abortions,” both their dangers and their entanglements with shady characters. But the practice and the mores of the back alley are with us still, tolerated by people for whom the ready provision of abortion trumps all else. Pro-choicers have long invoked the dignity of women. The nightmarish case of the Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the sting video of a counselor at a Planned Parenthood clinic cooperating with...

GREENFIELD, Massachusetts, February 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 50-year-old woman who performed an illegal abortion on a young woman, causing infection so severe she required hospitalization, has been given a sentence of two months probation and a $500 dollar fine. Deva Skydancer pleaded guilty to one count of practicing medicine without a license—the State then dropped a charge of illegal procurement of an abortion. Skydancer admitted to the court that she performed a suction abortion on a 25-year-old woman, who was ten and a half weeks pregnant. Skydancer called the abortion a “menstrual extraction.” Skydancer’s lawyer David Hoose argued for...

CWA Calls on FDA to Act After Another Woman Dies From Abortion Pill 9/22/2003 Surely women should not be treated as collateral damage in the pursuit of making abortion accessible. Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America (CWA) renewed its call for the FDA to withdraw its approval of the abortion pill RU-486 after reports of another woman’s death. Eighteen-year-old Holly Patterson died from an infection caused by fragments of her baby left in her uterus after she took RU-486 at a Planned Parenthood facility in California. The facility's procedure for administering RU-486, advertised on the Web site of Planned...