Medical Abortion Targeted By Trump Administration 20 Years After Its Debut

Article originally appeared in Teen Vogue on September 28th, 2020.

When Maleeha Aziz had a medication abortion, the 26-year-old says she traveled from Texas to Colorado to obtain the medicine. She received the mifepristone in a Colorado Springs clinic, then took the misoprostol when she was back home in Dallas.

Aziz, who was on birth control at the time she became pregnant, had recently immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan and was unfamiliar with laws about reproductive healthcare. She didn’t want her family to know she needed an abortion, so she couldn’t use insurance.