“If you go to a pharmacy and you can get them to call me […] I will prescribe [it] telephonically,” a South African doctor emailed our undercover reporter, who was posing as a young pregnant woman.
The doctor was referring to ‘abortion pill reversal’ (APR), a controversial method to ‘reverse’ a medical abortion (which consist of two pills taken a few days apart).
An online hotline – run from the US by activists from Heartbeat International, a Christian Right anti-abortion group – connects women to doctors around the world who will prescribe APR. Last year, openDemocracy revealed that this group has affiliates globally some of which have provided women with misinformation about their health, including false claims that abortion “causes cancer”.
