Almost 40 percent of abortions in the United States each year are done with pills—but those are just the ones provided in clinics and other medical facilities. An unknown number of people end their pregnancies on their own with pills they bought online or from a pharmacy in another country. This is known as self-managed abortion, or sourcing and using the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, or misoprostol alone, to end an early pregnancy outside of a medical setting.
