ArticleAmerican journal of public health2025
Self-Managed Medication Abortion: History, Evidence, Models of Care, and Policy Considerations.
Article in American journal of public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- 'Come on, Give Me the Pills Now': A Narrative Analysis of Reproductive Agency in Self-Managed Abortion in Argentina.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- "I Was Confident From the Bottom of My Heart That I Will be Fine With These Medicines": Qualitative Analysis of Decision-Making Around Self-Managed Abortion Trajectories in India.Studies in family planning · 2025Article
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Abstract
Self-managed abortion (SMA) represents a significant shift in the abortion landscape, offering an alternative to facility-based care via the medication misoprostol with or without mifepristone. The World Health Organization recommends SMA with medications as safe and effective up to 12 weeks' gestation and with access to information and health system referrals. Increasing prevalence of SMA can be attributed to a range of factors, including legal and logistical barriers to facility-based care as well as a social movement advocating autonomy and demedicalized practices in the United States, particularly after the US Supreme Court decided
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