Abortion drugs complicate this strategy. When no doctor is involved, the woman who uses abortion drugs might seem less like a “second victim” and more like a criminal.
In Chile, the small number of abortion prosecutions annually typically target doctors. El Salvador prosecutes women. Government officials there have toured the country’s hospitals to inform doctors of their duty to report women suspected of having induced their miscarriages. Not only does this policy violate near-universal norms of patient confidentiality, but because doctors have no reliable way to tell a natural miscarriage from an abortion, reports are made on the basis of suspicion. Whom do doctors tend to suspect most readily? Poor women.
Not to mention, I’m only one data point in Canada but pharamcist are apparently already bitches too you if you are picking up misoprostal to help with insertion of an IUD... the most reliable form of birth control we have. You can almost guarantee a ban on abortion would limit access to the drug that enables many young women to be able to use IUD’s which only makes the problem worse.