Accourding To Report Publish By New York Times Alot of Hispanic women who try to self-induce abortionused by medications and other substances , have no availability of safe and legal abortions,

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Many women from Dominican Republic living in New York and Santo Domingo take the prescription drug misoprostol ( prescripe to Reduce gastric ulcers) to end their pregnancies. and some physicians use misoprostol to induce labor, it is not approved for that use by FDA , the drug which contain misoprostol and produced by Pfizer

Pfizer said the company does not support the off-label use of the drug to induce abortion, adding that the drug’s label includes “FDA’s strongest warning against use in women who are pregnant.”

According to a study conducted in 2000 surveying 610 women at three New York clinics in primarily Dominican neighborhoods, 5% of women said that they had taken misoprostol and 37% said they knew that the drug induced abortions.

Many women from these communities attempt self-induced abortions because they “prefer to have a more private experience with their abortion, which is certainly understandable.”
Carolyn Westhoff, an obstetrician at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, said, “This is not just a culture of self-inducted abortion,” adding, “This is a culture of going to the pharmacy and getting the medicine you need.”