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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills

By STEPHEN GROVES
Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) —
It took two trips over state
lines, navigating icy roads
and a patchwork of state
laws, for a 32-year-old
South Dakota woman to
get abortion pills last year.
For abortion-seekers like
her, such journeys, along
with pills sent through
the mail, will grow in
importance if the Supreme
Court follows through with
its leaked draft opinion
that would overturn the
landmark Roe v. Wade
decision and allow
individual states to ban the
procedure. The woman,
who spoke on the condition
of anonymity because she
was concerned for her
family’s safety, said the
abortion pills allowed her
to end an unexpected
and high-risk pregnancy
and remain devoted to her
two children. Boxes of the drug mifepristone line a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Wednesday, March 16,
But anti-abortion activists 2022.
and politicians say those Associated Press
cross-border trips, remote abortion is decided,” said be the battleground that Administration approved surgery, according to
doctors’ consultations and Mary Ziegler, a professor decides how enforceable mifepristone — the main the Guttmacher Institute,
pill deliveries are what they at Florida State University abortion bans are.” drug used in medication a research group that
will try to stop next. College of Law who Use of abortion pills has been abortions. More than half supports abortion rights.
“Medication abortion specializes in reproductive rising in the U.S. since 2000 of U.S. abortions are now
will be where access to rights. “That’s going to when the Food and Drug done with pills, rather than Continued Page 2