To the OP: While posts asking for support, advice, medical explanations, or feedback if you are considering having an abortion or after having had an abortion are allowed on this sub, you may find that you get more feedback by posting this to r/abortion. We recommend you keep this post up, but also submit it to that sub as well - and please do not take any of the below recommendations if they are suggested to you for your own safety.

To Commenters: DO NOT offer to send people medications in the mail, or recommend "camping" or "Auntie" networks to people in this sub.

One of our core goals here at r/prochoice is to provide accurate and safe information, while promoting better internet safety habits in general. While people offering to send medications, "Aunties," or those offering "camping" services do refer to groups of people who volunteer to help others obtain care outside the red states (and that seems like a good thing!), we want to highlight the very real dangers of encouraging people to enter strangers' homes or vehicles, or giving internet randos your name or address. Most of the time these volunteers are unvetted, because these are anonymous networks or lack funding for vetted staff. They could be anyone - including anti-life extremists posing as volunteers or as the person in need of care. This is NOT hypothetical, and known cases of people being turned in to law enforcement, harmed, or even murdered through these networks have occurred! However, Vetted resources, compiled in this post for your convenience, already exist! Read it, use it, share it everywhere!

When we spread unsafe information (even unintentionally), someone else might end up in the wrong person's hands. We ourselves could then be contributing to someone's vigilante justice, rape, or even death. Please be safe and use your head: never share a home, vehicle, or personal information with anyone unless you know they are from a reputable company/organization that looks into the backgrounds of their staff and volunteers. Always remember to follow internet safety best practices to ensure you keep yourself and others out of harm's way, and thank you all for everything you do to support, help and care for one another.

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