Watch: How volunteer networks in Mexico aid at-home abortions in Texas

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For years, volunteer networks have helped hundreds of individuals throughout Mexico entry abortion outdoors the formal medical institution, often at house, by offering medicine.

Acompañamiento, which interprets to “accompaniment,” refers to a broad help system created by girls seeking to assist each other handle their very own abortions.

Network volunteers often called acompañantes distribute capsules, give directions on find out how to take them and supply medical steerage knowledgeable by docs. They counsel people via a collection of cellphone calls, video chats or texts. Sometimes they even supply up their very own houses as short-term lodging.

Now that abortion entry is proscribed in Texas and different states after the constitutional proper to abortion was revoked, the Mexican community mannequin is shifting into the United States.

Alexa Ura contributed to this report.

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