{"id":29287,"date":"2025-06-09T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29287"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:29:54","slug":"a-day-with-one-abortion-pill-prescriber-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29287","title":{"rendered":"A Day With One Abortion Pill Prescriber"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The young woman\u2019s voice trembled over the phone. Sitting in her car in Alabama, where abortion is almost totally banned, the 26-year-old mother of two was grappling with an unintended pregnancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like \u2018How in the world?\u2019\u201d she said, stifling a sob. \u201cI already have two children, and I cannot. I can\u2019t. I just can\u2019t go through with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wanted an abortion, she said, but was afraid of getting caught and didn\u2019t know what to expect from the process. \u201cGrowing up, I never really thought about actually doing something like this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the line, at home on a quiet residential street in Delaware, Debra Lynch, a nurse practitioner who runs a service prescribing abortion pills, spoke calmly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely valid to be scared,\u201d she said from her desk in a home office filled with plants and shelves of medication. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why we want you to call us, even if you\u2019re calling just to say: \u2018I\u2019m scared. I need to hear somebody tell me that what\u2019s going on right now is normal, and it\u2019s OK.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

During the 25-minute conversation, Ms. Lynch asked the woman about her health history and pregnancy and assessed that she was medically eligible for abortion medications that can be taken in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy: mifepristone, which blocks a hormone necessary for pregnancy development, and misoprostol, taken 24 to 48 hours later, which causes contractions so pregnancy tissue can be expelled. <\/p>\n

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The young woman\u2019s voice trembled over the phone. Sitting in her car in Alabama, where abortion is almost totally banned, the 26-year-old mother of two was grappling with an unintended pregnancy.\u201cI\u2019m like \u2018How in the world?\u2019\u201d she said, stifling a sob. \u201cI already have two children, and I cannot. I can\u2019t. I just can\u2019t go through with it.\u201dShe wanted an abortion, she said, but was afraid of getting caught and didn\u2019t know what to expect from the process. \u201cGrowing up, I never really thought about actually doing something like this,\u201d she said.On the other end of the line, at home on a quiet residential street in Delaware, Debra Lynch, a nurse practitioner who runs a service prescribing abortion pills, spoke calmly.\u201cIt\u2019s completely valid to be scared,\u201d she said from her desk in a home office filled with plants and shelves of medication. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why we want you to call us, even if you\u2019re calling just to say: \u2018I\u2019m scared. I need to hear somebody tell me that what\u2019s going on right now is normal, and it\u2019s OK.\u2019\u201dDuring the 25-minute conversation, Ms. Lynch asked the woman about her health history and pregnancy and assessed that she was medically eligible for abortion medications that can be taken in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy: mifepristone, which blocks a hormone necessary for pregnancy development, and misoprostol, taken 24 to 48 hours later, which causes contractions so pregnancy tissue can be expelled. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29259,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29289,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29287\/revisions\/29289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}