A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a law requiring that women in Guam meet with doctors in person before obtaining abortions, a restriction that has made terminating pregnancies in the U.S. territory difficult due to a lack of doctors.
overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had established a national right to abortions.
The lower-court ruling cleared the way for the doctors, Shandhini Raidoo and Bliss Kaneshiro, to provide care via telemedicine from nearly 4,000 miles away in Hawaii, where abortion is legal, and prescribe abortion pills remotely. "Guam can enact laws that it believes are best for its people, even if some people might strenuously oppose such laws or think them unwise," Lee wrote for a three-judge panel.
Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, a lawyer for the doctors with the American Civil Liberties Union, in a statement called the ruling disappointing, saying it "imposes unnecessary obstacles on people seeking abortion in Guam."
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