NPR pretty jazzed over mobile billboards advertising abortion pills on college campuses

NPR is taking some heat in the replies for calling these “abortion pills” — they’re “morning-after pills” — even if the woman behind the campaign and the billboards themselves use “abortion pills” to advertise their wares. Funny that abortion activists would care if they technically prevent a pregnancy or end one, though, isn’t it? But treatment for a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy is an abortion, or so they insist.

We know that NPR has staffers dedicated to covering abortion, but in this case, they’ve turned the mic over to Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

Reporter Maya Miller talked to one whole source for her story, Mayday executive director Dr. Jennifer Lincoln.

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Miller reports:

As Women’s History Month gets underway, mobile billboards are visiting college campuses in 14 states with abortion bans carrying a reminder that abortion pills are still accessible all across the country.

Mayday.Health, a nonprofit launched last year after legal abortions were heavily restricted or banned in 26 states, was created to provide information on where and how to safely order abortion pills. The traveling billboards are fitted with QR codes that direct people to resources specific to the state where they are hoping to have pills delivered.

The process can be cumbersome to navigate — involving forwarding mail between states, depending on abortion laws, or waiting weeks for an international prescription.

“We do not pretend that they are perfect,” said Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, executive director and president of Mayday. “We wish that everybody could just get these medications as easily as you can get Tylenol or Viagra in this country. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

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“It’s exhausting, but we are going to do it. We have to, because I look at my kids and these younger generations, and we won’t give up until we get our rights back,” Lincoln said.