Abortion Rates Continue to Climb as Telehealth Reshapes Post-Dobbs America

Abortion bans have not reduced demand for abortion, according to new #WeCount data, while telehealth has transformed how many patients obtain care.

6/17/2026
by Carrie N. Baker

Four years after the Supreme Court handed states the power to ban abortion, a striking paradox has emerged: Abortion rates are rising.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the number of abortions in the U.S. has increased over 20 percent, according to the Society of Family Planning’s latest #WeCount report, released June 10.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/06/17/abortion-number-rates-increase-dobbs-pills-telehealth-mifepristone-misoprostol/

Abortion pills “just in case”? Planned Parenthood will offer them in two states

May 21, 2026
Selena Simmons-Duffin

When abortion restrictions are in the news, as they have been for several weeks, research shows that many Americans take that as a signal to stock up on abortion medications even if they're not pregnant.

Now, for the first time, a Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering what's called the "advance provision" of abortion medication. The initiative, shared exclusively with NPR, launched Thursday and is called "Just In Case Abortion Pills." It means people can have the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol on their shelf to be used in the future if they want to end an early pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5827444/abortion-pills-mifepristone-misoprostol-planned-parenthood-advance-provision

USA – How to Get Abortion Pills, Regardless of What the Courts Say

Even as courts and politicians attempt to restrict abortion access, medication abortion remains widely available through international telehealth providers, community networks and vetted online sources.

May 11, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine

As legal battles over abortion pills continue to play out in the courts, many people across the United States are asking the same urgent question: If the Supreme Court or lower courts restrict access to mifepristone by mail, how can American women still get abortion pills?

The short answer: There are still multiple ways to safely and affordably access abortion medication.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/05/11/how-to-get-abortion-pills/

USA – Drugmaker files emergency appeal to restore abortion pill access

A federal appeals court shut off telehealth access Friday.

By Alice Miranda Ollstein
May 2, 2026

A company that makes the abortion drug mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to hit pause on Friday’s lower court ruling that cut off telemedicine access to the pills nationwide, including in states where abortion is legal.

The emergency appeal asks the high court to temporarily restore a federal policy that allows the pills to be prescribed online and delivered by mail, arguing that failing to do so would cause “immediate chaos” and leave patients around the country in limbo.

Continued: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/abortion-pill-telehealth-mifepristone-supreme-court-00903861

U.S. Teens Avoid Coercive Parental Involvement Laws by Using Telehealth Abortion Services

A new study shows teens in states with parental involvement laws are increasingly seeking abortion pills online to avoid judges, delays and unsafe alternatives.

March 10, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker and Shelby Hastings

The majority of U.S. teenagers live in states that require parental involvement in abortion healthcare decision-making. If parents are unavailable, or teens under 18 do not want to involve their parents, they must go to court and convince a judge that they are mature enough to decide on their own or that the abortion is in their best interest. To avoid this invasive and burdensome process, resourceful teens are now turning to abortion care from telehealth providers located outside their restrictive states, as documented by new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/03/10/teens-abortion-pills-ban-states/

USA – Community Networks Sharing Free Abortion Pills Expand to States Where Abortion Is Legal but Out of Reach

Volunteer-run mutual aid groups are quietly mailing free abortion pills across the U.S.—reaching tens of thousands of people shut out by cost, distance, privacy concerns and a shrinking clinical system, even in states where abortion remains legal.

2/19/2026
by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine

“Every package we send out is a bullet fired at the patriarchy.” —Anonymous

In response to abortion bans and restrictions, feminists across the country have created networks of community groups that share abortion pills by mail, free of charge, with people who need them. Mostly run by volunteers, these mutual aid networks have served over 100,000 people since 2022.

“Everybody deserves bodily autonomy,” said one volunteer, who got involved out of rage after the Supreme Court revoked women’s constitutional right to abortion in 2022.

Continued: https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/colorado-abortion-fund-increase/

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‘Mife No Matter What’: Community Abortion Providers Pledge to Continue Sharing Free Abortion Pills, Even if FDA Imposes Restrictions

Despite growing legal threats to the accessibility of abortion pills, national networks of volunteers are working to distribute the medication, discretely and without cost to patients.

Nov 4, 2025
by Carrie N. Baker

Since Roe fell, a community-led network of care has grown into a nationwide system with the promise of “mife no matter what.”

In June 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and over half of states banned or restricted abortion, grassroots activists across the country organized mutual aid groups to share free abortion pills with people living in restrictive states. Today, community providers distributing free abortion pills operate in every U.S. state and territory that bans or restricts abortion.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/04/free-abortion-pills-mifepristone-ban-states/

Celebrating mifepristone, a hero in modern abortion access, on its 25th anniversary in the U.S.

Though it faces new legal challenges, mifepristone may offer yet more

By Elisa Wells
Sept. 28, 2025

When the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone, the abortion pill, on Sept. 28, 2000, none of us working on expanding access to reproductive health care could have imagined the future we find ourselves in 25 years later. From the fall of Roe in 2022 and the subsequent banning or restriction of abortion in 19 states, to South Carolina’s recent efforts to include some forms of birth control in its total abortion ban, access to the basic medical care and medications that allow us to control our reproductive destinies is hanging by a thread. In the midst of this reproductive health care apocalypse, mifepristone is proving itself to be a hero in the fight for abortion access.

Continued: https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/28/mifepristone-abortion-pill-fda-approval-25th-anniversary/

Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis

BY JENNIFER PINSOF, Electronic Frontier Foundation
September 15, 2025

We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts.

For months, EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down or otherwise suppressed by major social media platforms. In collaboration with our allies—including Plan C, Women on Web, Reproaction, and Women First Digital—we launched the #StopCensoringAbortion campaign to collect and amplify these stories.

Continued: https://www.eff.org/pages/our-stop-censoring-abortion-campaign-uncovers-social-media-censorship-crisis

A History of Abortion Undergrounds—and a Guide to Starting One

Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.

Jessie Kindig
August 4, 2025

On a rainy evening in June 2001, abortion pirates sailed into Dublin harbor. Their converted fishing trawler had a portable clinic bolted to the deck, and the cargo included 20 doses of medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol), thousands of condoms, 120 IUDs, and 250 morning-after pills. The ship’s nearly all-female crew included a nurse and a gynecologist and was led by Rebecca Gomperts, a freckled and dark-haired Dutch doctor in her mid-thirties. The boat made its way up the River Liffey and docked close to a waiting crowd of activists and journalists.

Continued: https://newrepublic.com/article/198369/abortion-undergrounds-history-guide