‘It felt like coming up for air’: Abortion patients defend mifepristone access (USA Today)

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    Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022.

    ‘It felt like coming up for air’: Abortion patients defend mifepristone access – By Christine Fernando (USA Today) / May 27, 2023

    When Layidua Salazar went to the doctor in 2013, she expected it to just be a regular annual exam.

    But when the nurse came in, she said Salazar wouldn’t be having a pap smear. She was pregnant.

    Salazar was on birth control and felt sure the nurse had the wrong room. But they had run the test three times. “We are sure you’re pregnant,” the nurse told her.

    There was another complication. Just days before, Salazar, who came to the U.S. from Mexico City without documentation when she was 5 years old, had received a deportation letter saying she had only eight months left in the country.

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