give themselves abortions, were health care providers describing that as something there s an uptick in, is it something they have always seen? it s hard to track the numbers on this just because not everybody reports when they have tried to use these pills. the health providers i talked to said that anecdotally, they have noticed in the last year or so, more women seem to be using alternate means of trying to have an abortion, whether that s taking herbal pills. a doctor told me last week that a woman shovedchugged a six-pac hot beer thinking it would make her throw up. there are women crossing the border or having their friends or family members get this medication for them so they can try it at home and try to self induce an abortion in the privacy of their own home. we only her about the reports. the public reports here because the abortion providers have told us that they re seeing this in their clinics. we don t know how much this may be happening out there in the