U.S. Women Seeking Abortion Look to Mexican Pharmacies for Help

The Texas Tribune: Looking to Mexico for an Alternative to Abortion Clinics, by Thanh Tan:

In this Roman Catholic stronghold, where abortion is deeply stigmatized, reproductive health providers tell stories of women going to pharmacies across the border in Mexico, in search of a drug they hope will terminate unwanted pregnancies.

But the providers say that the pharmacies, which are largely unregulated, often fail to give proper instructions for the drug, misoprostol, and that it does not always give the women the result they seek. . . .