Is This the Abortion Clinic of the Future?

It was 2019, remembers Kiki Freedman, and “cactus dicks were all over the place.” That summer, pharma-delivery start-ups Hims and Roman had raised enough cash to plaster virile advertisements for erectile dysfunction meds across New York City’s subways. Around the same time, the last abortion clinic in Missouri, where Freedman had gone to college, seemed ready to shutter. Seeing the ads, she’d wondered, Could something like that work for abortion?

In 2020, abortion pills (which were approved in the United States over 20 years ago) finally supplanted in-clinic procedural abortions as the most popular method for ending a pregnancy. That same year, in response to the pandemic, the FDA removed the in-person dispensing requirement for the pills, which had long been regulated with the same kind of strict protocols as opioids, later making the change permanent. And in the spring of 2021, Freedman launched her company under the friendly name Hey Jane.

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