![]() One in five (19%) made the attempt via “physical methods”. Just under a third (29%) took another medication, while two in five (38%) used herbs. This may include “getting information from the internet, a friend or family member about pills, medicine or herbs”, as well as the “insertion of foreign objects into the uterus”.ĭuring the women’s most recent attempt, one in five (20%) used the World Health Organization-recommended abortion drug misoprostol, but without medical supervision. Read more: England’s at-home abortions should be ‘catalyst’ for positive changeĪ self-managed abortion was defined as “doing something on your own to try to end a pregnancy without medical assistance”. When projected over the participant’s lifetime, and taking into account “under-reporting of abortion”, the UCSF team calculated 7% of US women try to terminate a pregnancy themselves at some point. One in 100 (1.4%) “reported a history of attempting” an abortion while living in the US. To learn more, scientists from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) analysed over 7,000 women aged between 18 and 49. ![]() “Increasing evidence” has highlighted the extent of pregnant women who try to terminate their pregnancy “outside the formal healthcare system”. (Posed by a model, Getty Images)Īround 7% of women in the US attempt a “self-managed abortion” at some point in their life, research suggests. Some women attempt an at-home abortion because it seems 'faster or easier', research suggests.
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