AI & Abortion Care: How people are using AI to find abortion care, and how this might be dangerous

22 June 2026
Chloe Hanse, Amnesty Feminist Network Committee Member

Abortion is a common healthcare procedure in the UK: 1 in 3 women will have one in their lifetime.[1] Despite this prevalence, it remains a heavily stigmatised and taboo topic. That gap, between how routine it is and how shameful it's made to feel, might explain why so many people now turn to Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots when they need information.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Meta AI, and Grok have become a new way that people find information about abortion care.[2] These tools are fast, available at any hour, and they feel private [3]. You don't have to sift through pages of search results. For many people, asking a chatbot about abortion probably feels emotionally easier than calling a clinic. There is no receptionist, no unknown of how whoever picks up a helpline will react, no worry about ‘burdening’ a healthcare provider with questions. You just ask a question, and something answers, and it does so in a confident, authoritative tone that can make it easy to take the information at face value.

Continued: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved/join-the-movement/join-a-group-or-network/amnesty-feminists/blog/ai-abortion-care-how-people-are-using-ai-to-find-abortion-care-and-how-this-might-be-dangerous/

Latin American Feminists Train U.S.-Based Doulas on New Mifepristone Protocol for Second-Trimester Abortions

U.S. abortion doulas are turning to decades of Latin American feminist expertise to make second-trimester medication abortions safer, less painful and more accessible

June 5, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker

Across the world, women living in countries that ban licensed clinicians from performing abortions have always found ways to access abortion outside of the medical system. Today, abortion pills have made it much safer.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states banned abortion, U.S.-based activists turned to Latin American feminists who have run collectives supporting women seeking abortions outside of the medical system for decades.

With their guidance, U.S.-based activists have created their own feminist collectives that now serve thousands of women and girls each month in 38 states that ban and restrict abortion access, including the entire Southeast and much of the Midwest of the country. These collectives provide free abortion pills and the doula support to see them through.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/06/05/two-mifepristone-home-self-managed-abortion-pills-later-late-term-second-trimester-pregnancy/

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

Kinshasa Project Trains Health Workers on Safe Abortion and Reproductive Health Care

May 11, 2026

A community-based organization, ACODEFEM (Community-based Action to Support Women’s Development), has launched a reproductive health initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo aimed at strengthening the capacity of pharmacists to provide support for medical abortion services. The project was implemented between April and June 2026 in selected communes of Kinshasa, including Matete, Masina, and Kimbanseke.

The initiative, supported by HESPERIAN Health Guides, focused on improving access to information on safe abortion practices and reducing the risks associated with unsafe abortions. It also aimed to raise awareness about the use of medical abortion medicines such as misoprostol and mifepristone, while promoting a rights-based approach to reproductive healthcare.

Continued: https://news.fundsforngos.org/2026/05/11/kinshasa-project-trains-health-workers-on-safe-abortion-and-reproductive-health-care/

11.05.2026

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Three abortion rights defenders share their stories of hope

Amnesty International
By Cécile Yougbare, SRHR activist with Médecins du Monde, Kinga Jelińska, activist from Poland and Erin Grant, Abortion Care Network Co-Executive Director 
10 March 2026

Across the world, governments and other actors are rolling back on decades of progress on gender equality, including access to abortion. But people are fighting back, determined to protect the rights so many have fought so hard to achieve.   

As the Commission on the Status of Women holds its 70th session, three courageous human rights defenders from Burkina Faso, Poland and the United States share their strategies to protect access to abortion, their hopes for the future and the reasons why they believe that, despite the many increasing challenges, humanity must always win.

Continued: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/three-abortion-rights-defenders-share-their-stories-of-hope

Ipas evidence in action 2025: Research insights on abortion access, quality, and equity

January 28, 2026

Evidence matters most when it helps people act. In 2025, Ipas and partners published research that turns lived realities into practical lessons for improving abortion access and care, especially for people who are too often pushed to the margins.

Across 17 countries and three languages, these studies offer crucial information and methodologies to help push for better standards, smarter investments, and fewer barriers between people and essential health care.

Here’s an overview of our 2025 research you can use in advocacy and action.

Continued: https://www.ipas.org/news/ipas-evidence-in-action-2025-research-insights-on-abortion-access-quality-and-equity/

28.01.2026

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In Post-Roe America, Abortion Care Is Being Reborn From the Ground Up

A British doctor finds fear and legal chaos being transformed into a new, decentralized model of reproductive freedom

Sabrina Das
Jan 13, 2026

Along the broad, ceremonial expanse of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., its lanes framed by rows of evenly spaced trees, Amy Allina paused to remember how her career began. Years before she established herself as a consultant for reproductive rights nonprofits, she learned how to perform abortions with nothing more than a length of plastic tubing and a mason jar.

It was the early 1990s. She was part of a loose network of feminist health collectives — women who believed, with a conviction that feels almost radical now, that information belonged to everyone, especially when it concerned their bodies. A mentor taught her “menstrual extraction,” a low-tech method capable of removing the contents of the uterus in very early pregnancy. The procedure was performed in living rooms and kitchens, surrounded by friends. There were no machines, no metal instruments, no men in white coats.

Continued: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/in-post-roe-america-abortion-care-is-being-reborn-from-the-ground-up/

13.01.2026

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Dr. Victoria Williams

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Telemedicine abortion is winning — and that terrifies the right

by Julie F. Kay, opinion contributor
Dec 21, 2025

As we wrap up the year, let’s decree 2025 a glass-half-full year for abortion rights. The year’s headlines were consumed by doom and gloom coverage. From hits against Planned Parenthood to increasingly restrictive anti-abortion laws passing in red states, and threats to proven-safe abortion medications, the post-Roe landscape certainly appeared bleak.

Yet while news cycles focused on abortion bans and restrictions, a quiet revolution happened. Telemedicine abortion transformed the geography of abortion access nationwide. Although most pro-choice Americans remain unaware that telemedicine abortion is an option, patients seeking abortions have widely embraced it. More than a quarter of all abortions in the U.S. were provided via telemedicine in 2025.

Continued: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5653331-telemedicine-abortion-rights-2025/

21.12.2025

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Inside the Global Network of Abortion Doulas Supporting Self-Managed Care

A global infrastructure is emerging to guide people through self-managed abortions, reshaping how pregnancies are ended.

1/26/2025
by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine

As barriers to clinic-based abortion care increase, a growing number of women are self-managing their abortions: finding and using abortion pills independently of the formal medical system—usually through online abortion pill services, community networks sharing pills for free or websites selling pills.

To support self-managed abortion, feminists are creating a global network of online abortion doulas—trained companions who offer one-on-one support by phone, email and text to people using abortion pills. A leader in this effort is the organization Rouge Doulas, which runs the Rouge Abortion Doula School.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/26/rouge-abortion-pills-doula-support-health/

It Is Sacred Work’: Abortion Clinics Are Stepping Up After the Fall of Roe

Organizations across the country are ensuring people continue to have access to reproductive care.

by Eleanor J. Bader
November 25, 2025

In the first 100 days after the June 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, sixty-six health clinics in fifteen states stopped providing surgical abortions, and fourteen states enacted near-total bans on the procedure.

But then something unexpected happened. By 2024, twenty-one new facilities had opened in states where abortion was not completely banned, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Moreover, KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation) reports that by 2023, 226 virtual providers—including online pharmacies, feminist health centers, and help lines—had set up shop to counsel people seeking abortion services and provide abortion medication through the mail.

Continued: https://progressive.org/latest/it-is-sacred-work-abortion-clinics-are-stepping-up-after-the-fall-of-roe-bader-20251125/