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Carter Sherman

‘Resist the state’: activists teach Floridians to ‘self-manage’ abortions in wake of ban

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Abortion rights advocates rally against the six-week abortion ban in Orlando, Florida, on 13 April 2024. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

On Wednesday, the same day Florida banned abortion past six weeks of pregnancy, a small group of young people gathered in a reading room in Gainesville, Florida, to listen to a talk about how to induce your own abortion through pills – and how to support your friends going through abortions.

“You don’t have to take them alone,” one organizer, who gave her name as J, told the group of more than a dozen attendees. “We are ultimately here to be establishing a community care network around abortion support.”

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