Dr. Angel Foster

What I see in terms of anti-abortion movement rhetoric is that I fear that there is going to be a continued push to criminalize the abortion patient.

Ten years ago, this was almost unthinkable that the anti-abortion rights movement would say out loud that a strategy for reducing the number of abortions was to put abortion seekers or abortion patients in jail.

But now we're seeing more and more of this conversation in the press, and we're also seeing state legislatures taking this up.

Thanks so much for having me.

So we're providing care to between 3,000 and 3,500 patients a month.

And we, we launched on September 28th of 2023, which was international safe abortion day.

And since our launch, we've now cared for more than 50,000 patients.

Who is a typical patient for the map?

Is there a typical patient?

So, um,

About a third of our patients are from Texas.

About 90% of our patients come from near total-ban states or six-week-ban states.

And so we are both caring for patients that previously got in-person care.

And I think what we're now seeing is that folks who weren't able to get abortions prior to Dobbs because they couldn't afford it and couldn't navigate the systems are now able to access high-quality, affordable abortion care.

It has been a tough two weeks.

So the Fifth Circuit's decision was released on May 1st, which was a Friday.

We had already sent packages to patients that afternoon before the decision was announced.

Packages of abortion pills.

Packages of abortion pills that included mifepristone and mesoprostol.

So over that weekend, we were really working with three different groups of patients.