I’m a trans man and should be included in discussions about abortion
with the ‘pill by post’ method in effect.Introduced in early lockdown to maintain Covid social distancing measures, patients under 10 weeks pregnant are mailed the pills with full instructions on how to self-administer, following a phone consultation and medical assessment.Thanks to an MP vote this option’s now here to stay for England.
Previous government plans were to revert to pre-Covid procedure – taking the first pill strictly under supervision at a hospital or clinic.
The space between myself and the medical professional on the other end of that phone call was a small comfort. Asking for the pills to make my body reject the embryo, its heart already beating inside me.
Sitting and waiting through the pain and bleeding. It was humiliating, miserable and, despite my husband and daughter around me, lonely.I felt like I’d made a mistake that was now ending something that never asked to be.
