Reproaction Hosts Press Conference Demanding End to Prosecuting Pregnancy Outcomes in Missouri

Reproaction co-founder/co-director Pamela Merritt hosted speakers Sara Baker, Legislative and Policy Director, ACLU of Missouri, Mallory Schwarz, Executive Director, NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, and Indra Woods Lusero, Staff Attorney, National Advocates for Pregnant Women on a call-in press conference to discuss the alarming consequences of criminalizing abortion and prosecuting women for pregnancy outcomes - especially as the St. Louis region has emerged as the front line in the battle to maintain and expand access to abortion.

If you walk away from this forum with anything, understand the logical consequence of an abortion ban in 2019 is not a wire hanger — it is jail." - Pamela Merritt

The reality of the situation is that people always have and always will find ways to end their own pregnancies." - Erin Matson

Abortion Opponents Think They’re Going to Win. They’re Wrong.

Abortion pills, including mifepristone and misoprostol, have been used to end pregnancies in the United States for more than 20 years.

Every state should be held on the hook for making abortion more accessible within its own borders." - Erin Matson

What we know is people were managing their abortions before Roe, and have and will continue to do so without Roe," - Pamela Merritt

The Future of DIY Abortions is the Internet, Not a Back-Alley Doctor

By providing information, legal advice, and emotional support, self-managed abortion activists are paving a way for a new future of reproductive rights, one where information is the most powerful tool for ensuring bodily autonomy.

We know that medication abortion is safe and effective," - Erin Matson

One of the first things that I thought of when Justice Kennedy’s retirement was announced was our work on self-managed abortion has never been more important and that every person in this country deserves the right to information about how to safely and effectively end a pregnancy with medication,” - Erin Matson

Attacks on abortion access fuel the movement towards self-managed abortion

For centuries, women have found ways to control their fertility, and self-managed abortion is the newest.