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A new study making the media rounds suggests that “self-managed” abortions (SMA) have risen 40% since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If accurate, then the abortion industry has achieved increased “self-managed” abortions — which is exactly what it has wanted for over a decade. Though there is a direct line between the abortion industry’s efforts to expand abortion access and the increased use of at-home abortion methods, the results of the study are being dishonestly used to attack pro-life laws as dangerous, as if they are the...

Significantly more women chose to end pregnancies themselves — using unsupervised and potentially dangerous at-home methods — in the year following the Supreme Court’s abolition of federal protections for abortion, a new study has found. An estimated 3.4 percent of all women of reproductive age reported having tried some form of at-home abortion in the year following the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, according to findings published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open. That’s up from 2.4 percent of all women the year before — a trend that researchers projected...

Some recent pro-abortion media propaganda has attempted to gaslight the public by painting “self-managed abortion,” sometimes known as “DIY” or “at-home abortion,” as if it is the fault of the pro-life movement and the result of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. But the abortion industry’s plan to move toward self-managed abortion was set in motion long, long before the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision — in fact, over a decade before. It seems that now, the abortion industry and media’s plan is to blame pro-life laws when anything goes wrong with the self-managed abortions they endorsed...