Magda, a Hungarian immigrant, discovers that she's two months pregnant, and a nurse at a contraceptive clinic refuses to help her. She pretends to be interested in midwifery school to borrow some medical books from a nurse, and reads up on a drugs she can use to self-induce an abortion. She steals the drugs from a doctor's bag, but they don't work. She steals a file of the drug and injects it into her thigh, which causes her to bleed and need to be transported to the hospital for a D&C.
Keywords: Illegal abortion, self-induced abortion.
Episodes:
Episode 7.3
Network:
PBS
Health outcomes:
Bleeding