Women in the U.S. have a 60-fold higher risk of death from childbirth than from a medical abortion. Furthermore, giving birth is associated with a 25 times higher risk for severe maternal morbidity than a medical abortion. Maternal mortality and morbidity are 3 times higher among poor and black women. Aid Access is a harm reduction strategy. We offer safe abortion options to women who, decades ago, may have been forced to harm themselves, or risk their own lives, to end their pregnancies. Women denied a wanted abortion and who are forced to carry a pregnancy to term have four times higher risk of living below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL); are more likely to experience serious complications from the end of pregnancy, including eclampsia and death; more likely to stay tethered to abusive partners; and are more likely to experience anxiety after being denied abortion.

https://www.womenonwaves.org/en/page/7542/aid-access-will-continue-providing-abortion-care