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In many domains of life, COVID-19 has reshaped our understandings of the home as a space of work, education and care. This chapter explores the home as a site of abortion care, after the “home” was approved in countries worldwide as a place where doctors could virtually prescribe, and people could take abortion pills. The chapter explores different visions of abortion-at-home in the COVID-19 regulatory reforms, and different experiences and understandings of that care. Part I tracks the constructions of the home within a crisis management discourse, as favored in state justifications for the reforms. Motivated by a historic state of emergency, a temporary response to ensure access to care and to limit exposure to the virus, these reforms are characterized as pragmatic and conservative by enabling clinicians to safely administer an abortion with the same control brought into the home. Part II proposes an alternative legacy of the reforms by focusing on the agency of people in transforming their homes into places of care. While introduced of necessity, the home becomes a site of experimentation and improvisation informed by a home aesthetic unbounded by the regulated structures of medical care. Intersecting with the everyday tasks, products and people of home life, abortion care is opened to all forms of radical diversity, especially during a time when people are forming new relationships to their home and investing new meaning in it. The chapter concludes by imagining the future of abortion law born of public health need but habituated in the home.
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