re: #107 Belafon

You still need a prescription.

I’d note that the anti-abortion crowd’s next target is distribution of meds for medication abortions via the mails. I think they’re going to HONEST TO GOD try to bring back the Comstock laws. That said, we just need to get in touch with our sisters in Argentina and other countries where they have had this problem and learn how they dealt with it.

And I think I posted an article from the Texas Tribune a week or two back about how people on the other side of the Mexican border have ramped up to help Texas pregnant people (for sure, dunno about AZ) to get abortions. It’s going to be a cat and mouse game and the clock is ticking until the first person dies—either because they had an unsafe, unsupervised abortion or because they were denied an abortion because they weren’t quite dead enough before an abortion would be approved (the Savita Halappanavar death).

And finally, I dunno how safe this is, but a DIY anarchist collective is experimenting with putting misoprostol on cards, which you’re supposed to tear off and put in each cheek. These would be even more easily distributable than pills. Like I said, NOT AT ALL SURE HOW SAFE THIS IS but it’s out there. One of the collective’s members said:

“Organizations like mine should not exist, we should not exist,” Laufer told Motherboard after the talk. “There’s nothing reasonable about this being a thing—it shouldn’t be. Makes no sense.”

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