In the years before Roe, a group in Chicago known as the Jane Collective referred women to physicians who would perform illegal abortions. When they learned that one of the doctors they had enlisted was unlicensed, the women concluded that if he could do it, they could do it, and he then taught the women to do surgical abortions. Eventually, seven of them were caught and arrested. Fortunately, Roe was decided, and the case was dropped. (link)
Much has changed in medical technology of abortion. Vacuum aspiration abortions are available (link), and more importantly, abortion pills (medical abortion) are widely available.
Plan C, or the use of abortion pills, is legal in many states. Now it is possible get an abortion online. (link) Self managed abortions using pills are know to be safe up to 10 weeks, that is approximately 2 months after what would have been the beginning of the first missed period of the pregnancy.
Everyone knows, or should know, that criminalization simply drives abortion underground. There might be an initial downtick, but people soon learn to find illegal ways to obtain an abortion. What is happening in Texas will be happening elsewhere, and everyone should be ready. Making certain that everyone knows about medical abortion is definitely an important project both now and during future suppressions of reproductive freedom.