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Drawing on years of research and interviews with over eighty activists, abortion providers, medical researchers, lawyers, and people who have used abortion pills, Baker's book is the first comprehensive history of abortion pills in the United States--why it took so long for the FDA to approve mifepristone, why the agency unnecessarily restricted the medication for decades, why so few doctors offered abortion pills, and how the COVID-19 pandemic and, ironically, the reversal of Roe v. Wade enabled activists to finally wrench mifepristone from the tight control of legal and medical authorities. -Baker argues that resistance to increasing access to abortion pill came not only from the anti-abortion movement and Republican politicians, but resulted from a combination of factors, including:• FDA conservatism and cautiousness; • The market-oriented pharmaceutical, healthcare, and insurance industries; • Mainstream medicine's abandonment of abortion care; physician gatekeeping; • Democrats' lukewarm support for abortion; • The influence of philanthropy in abortion healthcare and activism; • The cautious approach of some abortion supporters.-To gain access to abortion pills, determined and

Who reads Abortion Pills: US History and Politics?

Author

Carrie N. Baker

Publisher

Amherst College Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781943208852

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Women'S Studies, Social_sciences