{"id":857,"date":"2024-01-13T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T07:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=857"},"modified":"2024-01-17T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:37:06","slug":"politics_detail_10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=857","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS_DETAIL_10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">POLITICS<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong>JANUARY 3, 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First School Shooting of 2024 Leaves One Dead, Five Injured<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Classes had just resumed at Iowa\u2019s Perry High School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>JULIANNE MCSHANE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News &amp; Engagement Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"557\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2024_01_03_medication_abortion-e1704317126594.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-860\" style=\"width:794px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2024_01_03_medication_abortion-e1704317126594.webp 989w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2024_01_03_medication_abortion-e1704317126594-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2024_01_03_medication_abortion-e1704317126594-768x433.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Police responded to the first school shooting of the year at Perry High School in Iowa Thursday morning.<strong>Andrew Harnik\/AP<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>More Americans are&nbsp;<\/strong>stockpiling abortion pills in case they need them in the future, according to new research&nbsp;published&nbsp;Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relatively new practice of requesting a prescription for abortion pills&nbsp;before potentially needing them\u2014known as&nbsp;advance provision\u2014has spiked during two periods of recent uncertainty about the future of abortion access, the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found. Those periods included two critical moments: the weeks following the May 2, 2022 leak of the Supreme Court\u2019s draft decision in&nbsp;<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization&nbsp;<\/em>and amid conflicting rulings last April about the FDA\u2019s approval of mifepristone, the first pill in the two-pill regimen that comprises medication abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studying data from the nonprofit organization&nbsp;Aid Access, whose doctors prescribe and mail abortion pills to people in all 50 states, researchers found that the average number of daily requests for advance provision increased nearly tenfold\u2014to about 247 a day\u2014in the seven weeks between the&nbsp;leak&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;draft and when the Supreme Court&nbsp;issued&nbsp;its final decision. Once the Supreme Court issued its final ruling in June 2022, requests decreased to about 89 per day\u2014but then they spiked again last April when&nbsp;conflicting rulings&nbsp;about the FDA approval of mifepristone thrust abortion pills back into the headlines, leading to an average of about 172 daily requests for advance provision of the pills. (While a lawsuit&nbsp;challenging&nbsp;the FDA approval brought by anti-abortion activists is currently&nbsp;pending&nbsp;before the Supreme Court, abortion pills&nbsp;remain&nbsp;available by mail.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it shows people are paying attention\u201d to threats to access, Abigail Aiken, the study\u2019s lead author and associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas-Austin, said, emphasizing that nearly three-quarters of participants cited wanting \u201cto ensure personal health and choice\u201d and \u201cto prepare for possible abortion restrictions\u201d as their reasons for requesting advance provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think one of the perhaps unintended consequences of abortion bans, or of the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;decision, is that it really does shine a light on medication abortion, and probably made it more visible to a lot of people out there,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But inequities in access to advance provision of abortion pills remain. Most people who requested the pills were white people over 30 who didn\u2019t have kids and lived in urban areas with lower-than-average poverty rates; most people who obtain abortions, on the other hand, are women of color, in their 20s, and already have children, data has&nbsp;shown, and nearly half live&nbsp;below&nbsp;the federal poverty line. The discrepancy in the demographics of people who get abortions and those who manage to get advance provision of abortion pills is likely due, in part, to cost: Aid Access charges $150 for advance provision. The group offers funding for people who may not be able to afford the pills, but that assistance may not be as widely known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Elisa Wells, co-founder of&nbsp;Plan C, a website that&nbsp;provides&nbsp;information about accessing abortion pills, told&nbsp;<em>Mother Jones<\/em>, \u201cNot everybody has $150 to spend on something they may never need.\u201d (Wells was not involved with Aiken\u2019s study.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Americans who can get pregnant, Wells and her colleagues at Plan C see stocking up on abortion pills as a \u201creasonable thing to do.\u201d The pills should have a shelf life of several years if stored properly (in their original packaging, and at room temperature): mifepristone, which blocks the pregnancy hormone progesterone, lasts about five years, and misoprostol, which causes the cervix to contract, expelling the pregnancy, lasts around two years,&nbsp;according to Plan C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medication abortion already accounts for more than half of all abortions nationwide,&nbsp;according to&nbsp;the Guttmacher Institute\u2014and Aiken\u2019s study suggests advance provision could continue to increase as abortion restrictions mount. The highest number of requests for advance provision of the pills, she said, came not from people in states with current abortion bans, but those in states where legislators were considering future bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery time we\u2019re seeing uncertainty, every time we\u2019re seeing potential legislation coming, that\u2019s when people seem to be reacting most,\u201d Aiken said. \u201cThey see the writing on the wall\u2014and that seems to be the biggest motivator.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First School Shooting of 2024 Leaves One Dead, Five Injured JULIANNE MCSHANE News &amp; Engagement Writer More Americans are&nbsp;stockpiling abortion pills in case they need them in the future, according to new research&nbsp;published&nbsp;Tuesday. The relatively new practice of requesting a prescription for abortion pills&nbsp;before potentially needing them\u2014known as&nbsp;advance provision\u2014has spiked during two periods of recent&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=857\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POLITICS_DETAIL_10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":436,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions\/899"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}