"The only thing that restricting abortion does is make it dangerous for women to have one." In the face of new abortion bans, this doctor is providing abortion care by mail.
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00:00I want to work towards a world where all the women, including the most vulnerable women,
00:15will be able to have access to a safe abortion when they need it.
00:25I'm not based in the US, I'm based in Europe.
00:29And so my medical practice, what I'm doing, is following under the regulations and the
00:35laws of the country where I'm based.
00:49So one of the women that wrote to me, she lived in her car with her two kids because
00:54she was ousted out of her house.
00:56She was the house foreclosure.
00:58And so she had no place to live.
01:00She had nothing.
01:01She couldn't even feed her kids.
01:03So these are the stories that are driving me.
01:26Many women are dying unnecessarily because they take desperate measures to end their
01:33pregnancies.
01:34It doesn't stop any abortion from happening.
01:37The only thing that restricting abortion does is make it dangerous for women to have one.
01:51And I mean, I never had ever had a letter like this.
01:54So it was kind of a, what's this, what should I do with this?
01:59After the letter of the FDA, members of Congress sent a letter to the FDA to applaud them on
02:05their action.
02:08Not 108 were white, middle-aged male men.
02:12I don't know what the concern is, because aid access is an harm reduction strategy.
02:19There's also trans women and non-binary that are the most vulnerable, which is a lot of
02:26people living in poverty, suffering from domestic violence and, you know, other situations that
02:35people are in.
02:36What happens is it's breaking the taboo around abortion.
02:50It's creating awareness.
02:52It shows that it's an international human rights issue.
03:02So how it works is that women do an online consultation.
03:06Women that cannot afford to pay, I will give them a sliding scale.
03:10And if they cannot pay anything, I will try to help them still.
03:14They will forward that prescription to a pharmacy in India, and the pharmacy in India will send
03:19them the medicines.
03:2025% of the women that reached out to me, they cannot even afford to pay 80 euros, which
03:26means that, you know, an abortion for $700 would be totally, is totally out of their reach.
03:41As long as I can do it, I will not turn any women away.