Alone in a bathroom: The fear and uncertainty of a post-Roe medication abortion

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Alone in a bathroom:
The fear and uncertainty of a post-Roe medication abortion
By
Caroline Kitchener
April 11, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve.
Her deepest fears and anxieties took over.

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Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to end her pregnancy, worried about how they might interact with medication she took for her heart condition.

But in her home state of Oklahoma, where almost all abortions are banned, that wasn’t an option.

The pain kicked in after about an hour, around midnight on a Sunday in January, eventually becoming sharp enough that the 23-year-old said she struggled to stand. While Angel would be fine by the next morning, she worried that something might be very wrong as she lay on the cold bathroom tile, her body racked by some of the worst pain she could remember.
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