‘Tip of the iceberg’: US self-managed abortions soar post-Roe, study shows

A patient prepares to take mifepristone at a clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, on 20 April 2023. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

In the six months after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, roughly 26,000 more Americans used pills to induce their own at-home abortions than would have done so if Roe had not fallen, according to a new study.

Published on Monday in Jama, one of the leading peer-reviewed medical journals in the United States, the study comes ahead of a key Tuesday hearing at the US supreme court at which the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could determine the future of a major abortion pill, mifepristone.