Women in the U.S. Can Now Get Safe Abortions On Line

-Source-The Atlantic- For years an organization called Women on Web has given women a way to perform their own medication-induced abortions at home. The organization would remotely do online consultations fill prescriptions and ship pills that trigger miscarriages to women who live in countries where abortion is illegal. Several studies have shown that the service is safe. For American women whove wanted pills though theres been one major problem: Women on Web wouldnt ship to the United States. American women could (and do) instead search online for abortion pills but some of the medicines and pharmacies theyve found have been less than reliable. Now Women on Webs founder a doctor named Rebecca Gomperts has launched a new service that she says is just as safe as Women on Web and it does ship to the United States. The cost is $95 but the website says the service will try to help women who cant pay. Just like Women on Web the new service Aid Access will screen women for their eligibility to take the pillsthey should not be more than nine weeks pregnantthrough an online process. (If the pills are taken later they are less likely to work.) Gomperts will herself fill each womans prescription for misoprostol and mifepristone which together are about 97 percent effective in causing an abortion within the first trimester and already account for a third of all abortions in the United States