The Struggle for Bodily Autonomy: A Historical Perspective on Self-Managed Abortion in the United States

Susan Yanow is a cofounder of Women Help Women, an international organization that provides medication abortion services, and the spokesperson for SASS—Self-Managed Abortion; Safe and Supported in the United States. She consults for the Later Abortion Initiative at Ibis Reproductive Health and coordinates EASE—Expanding Abortion Services in the South. She also consults for The Massachusetts Medical Abortion Access Project (The MAP), which provides medication abortion across the United States under the Massachusetts Shield Law.