Access to abortion pills by mail was made permanent by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. Patients will be able to have a telemedicine appointment with a provider who can prescribe the pills and send them to the patient by mail.
“It’s really significant,” Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University, told. “Telehealth abortions are much easier for both providers and patients, and even in states that want to do it, there have been limits on how available it is.”“This decision follows the science, something we could only hope for from our nation’s regulatory body on medications. And the science shows that medication abortion care is safe to administer via telehealth," Dr.
Nineteen states -- mostly in the South and Midwest -- ban telemedicine visits for medication abortion, and it's likely that they and other conservative states will pass more laws to reduce access to abortion pills even more, thereported. In contrast, liberal states such as California and New York are expected to make medication abortion more widely available and to take steps to help women in states that don't allow telemedicine for abortion pills.
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