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Opinion: The new geography of abortion care
['Jennifer Karlin', 'Jeffrey Millstein', 'Rebecca Myerson', 'Allison Espeseth', 'Laura Dague', 'Krutika Kuppalli', 'Placide Mbala', 'David J. Hunter', 'Daniel Jernigan', 'Jason Mast']
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For growing numbers of people in America, this is what abortion care looks like today.
Patients are increasingly seeking abortion information and medical support outside traditional health care settings.
Patients had already begun reorganizing abortion care, using digital communication to find medical expertise, reassurance, and support beyond the institutions that traditionally housed it.
Continuing challenges to medication abortion have created confusion about what is legal, what is safe, and whether seeking care could expose someone to surveillance or criminalization.
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