Why self-managed abortion is so much more than a provisional solution for times of pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Postdoctoral Fellow in Harm Reduction as Public Policy, Schulich Law School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
² Research Coordinator at Women Help Women, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and PhD Candidate in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Mariana Prandini Assis et al. Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;28(1):1779633.

doi: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1779633.

¹ Postdoctoral Fellow in Harm Reduction as Public Policy, Schulich Law School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
² Research Coordinator at Women Help Women, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and PhD Candidate in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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Keywords: COVID-19; abortion access; self-managed abortion.

Conflict of interest statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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