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Trump is almost certainly bringing this back(barring two or more Supreme Court "Injustices" turning on him), but the existance of drugs that can be used for abortion will probably help a lot. In Alabama and other states with "Christian State"-dominated Shithole Governments, street-level drug dealers will hopefully add these drugs to their product menus. If not, they still won't have control until they leverage abortion bans into birth control bans, as some birth control drugs can be used for abortion as well in higher doses at the right timingl. The US has proven it cannot win a war on drugs, and that will mean it cannot win a war on abortion. People will go to prison and some will die in gun battles with police, but drug-induced abortion in utter defiance of "Christian State" will go on.

When things are too far along for drugs people will no doubt still need services like "Jane," and today another need will be underground medical care for ANY pregnant woman. This is because it is a near-certainty that states like Alabama will suspect drug-induced abortion whenever someone miscarries naturally. Thus, it will NOT be safe for any woman who is pregnant or might be pregnant to go to any doctor or any hospital for any reason. This is because it will be necessary to conceal the pregnancy from the government. That goes double if you are not white, not het, not Christian or use any kind of other disfavored drugs. In other abortion-banning countries women have already been sent to prison over miscarriages, sometimes even for "murder."

As for self-help medical care, it's not just for abortion: I am a cisgender but queer male with no employment, health insurance, or doctor, in my 50's, and can reliably say I would not be alive today without it. Were I a woman, the odds of forcing me to carry a pregnancy to term against my will would be exactly zero. Just detecting the pregnancy would be their first hurdle. I also consider an attempt by anyone to tell me (or anyone else) what I can do with my own body(or they with theirs) to be a direct act of war, as I regard every person alive as the sovereign owner of their own body: a king or queen(or in between) in their own skin. Any dispute over that sovereigny may be dealt with as any other claimed sovereigns would normally handle territorial disputes: diplomacy backed by war. If I can't have my own body, nobody can.