“Whatever’s Your Darkest Question, You Can Ask Me”

For The California Sunday Magazine, Lizzie Presser reports on a decentralized network of women who provide home abortion services. Home practitioners work outside of clinics to provide cheap and relatively safe abortions, which can net them prison time if caught. “We’re safe because we’re anonymous and isolated,” one provider said. Demand for furtive home abortions has risen as greater restrictions have been placed on abortion care and abortion clinics have been shut down.

Read at The California Sunday Magazine

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