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

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

As the state bans abortion past six weeks of pregnancy, a community care network springs to action in Gainesville

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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