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Criminal charges for self-managed abortions are rare. Reproductive rights advocates worry Texas's law will increase the legal risk. buzzfeednews.com/article/nicole…

Right now, only Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Nevada have laws that criminalize self-managed abortions specifically. But people have still ended up in prison in other states for it.

So advocates are bracing for a fight.

And as more people grow concerned about access to abortion clinics, coalitions of organizations have stepped up efforts to organize information on how people can get affordable pills through the mail.

Demand for self-managed abortion information is increasing in states where abortion access isn’t even under attack. Christie Pitney, a medication abortion provider in California, said requests have skyrocketed in the last few weeks for pills.

And community awareness is also essential, one advocate said, to the understanding that self-managed abortion should not be cause for fear “of being caged for decades.” buzzfeednews.com/article/nicole…