For decades abortion rights advocates in Mexico looked to the United States as an example of what was possible. The recent US Supreme Court decision left many of them determined to show solidarity.
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The Mexican groups' efforts for years have largely focused on helping Mexican women obtain pills for medication abortions and walking them through that process. And now they say they're seeing a notable increase in requests for that help from the United States. Lira remembers how alone she felt when she crossed the US-Mexico border to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic a decade ago.
Now the two pills needed for medication abortion -- mifepristone and misoprostol -- are cheaper and easier to obtain in Mexico. And networks of activists in Mexico have intensified their efforts to send the pills to the United States since the US Supreme Court ruling. Cardona and her partner have converted the second floor of their Monterrey home into a space they dub the"Abortería" -- Spanish for"the abortion shop."
Recently, a woman who was working from home showed up with her laptop and kept working as the medication worked its way through her system. "Let them do whatever they want. We are going to keep accompanying . ... I'm not going to be afraid of something that isn't here," she says.Mexican advocacy groups that facilitate access to medication abortions aren't the only ones seeing a shift.
It's already common for some Americans to travel to Mexico for other medical procedures. Traveling south of the border to visit abortion clinics could also become a more common occurrence, Garcia says. "What I sense is a lot of hopelessness, and it is really sad," she says."It's like we're in the Middle Ages again."
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