This Group Wants to Teach You How to Get Abortions Even Where They're Banned - TIME
Dr. Jennifer Lincoln has amassed nearly 3 million followers on TikTok through her frank, educational videos about sex, abortion, and reproductive care. And soon, she told TIME, the Oregon-based OB-GYN will take on a new role as Executive Director of Mayday Health, a health-education nonprofit founded in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health to help patients in states that have banned abortion figure out how to get abortions anyway.
Lincoln and Mayday are on the front lines of the next battle over abortion rights: the information war. Mayday launched on the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the simple goal of spreading the word about abortion pills—two medications prescribed by a doctor that, when taken within 48 hours of one another during the first trimester, can safely terminate a pregnancy. For patients living in states where abortion is banned, Mayday lays out the step-by-step process for how to obtain the pills, through mail-forwarding or ordering from abroad, and provides medical information about the safety and reliability of medication abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.
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The 501(c)(3) organization has partnered with social-media influencers like Dr. Lincoln and released ads on Pandora targeting core demographics who might need abortions. It’s particularly focused on low-to-middle-income women between the ages of 18 and 44 who live in states that heavily restrict abortion. Koppelman says that the goal is to reach patients at the moment when they’re searching for their options. In states with abortion bans, “if you search ‘how to get abortion pills,’ or ‘I need to get an abortion’ or ‘I need to end a pregnancy,’ Mayday comes up at the top of the search results,” he says.
In 2021, the FDA permanently changed a regulation requiring mifepristone to be obtained in person, which means that both pills that produce a medication abortion—mifepristone and misoprostol— can now be sent through the mail. And yet, particularly in states where abortion clinics have shut down and crisis-pregnancy centers spread false information about abortion, many patients don’t know that the pills are safe, or how to get them.
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The fact that Mayday does not sell or manufacture abortion pills themselves provides some legal cover, says Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who has written several books about freedom of speech. “If all they’re doing is informing people how they can obtain the pills but not actually selling them, then it’s not commercial advertising and would be more likely to be protected,” says Stone.
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