While conservative legislators work on limiting online access to abortion medication, a new report shows how popular it has become for patients who live in states who have banned abortion.
Researchers from the University of Texas in Austin led a team that analyzed for 15 months of recipe data from AID ACCESS, one of the largest online abortion telegeniakteugekboverers.
They found 84% of more than 118,000 online recipes from AID access Went to patients who live in abortion-Ban states.
The South and Midwest had the highest percentages of patients who have access to telegeniatric abortion. The rates were also larger in high poverty areas or where people should travel more than 100 miles to reach an abortion clinic, according to the report, which published this month.
AID Access is able to email abortion drugs to residents in all 50 states-even that in states with abortion prohibitions also to protect laws in the states by democratic states. Schildwets are designed to minimize the legal risks for people who offer abortions in state lines or to access abortions.
Currently, 22 States and Washington, DC have reproductive care shield laws, either by legislation or with executive order, according to a report from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
Eight of those states – California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington – specifically protect TeleHealthBortus providers Regardless of where their patient is located.
Shield lawsalong with Difficulties to gain access to personal abortion services In Abortus-Ban States have contributed to an increase in medication and telewhalth absorbs since the American Supreme Court destroyed the federal right to abortion in 2022 and cleared the road for state prohibitions. With TeleHealthBortus, patients have a virtual appointment with a doctor who can prescribe abortion medication, which is then filled by a recognized pharmacy and is emailed to the patient.
Research has shown that abortion of telehealth medication is effective and safe and is comparable to personal medication abortion.
Medication abortion is good Almost two -thirds Of all abortions provided by doctors in states without prohibitions in 2023, the most recent data available at the Guttmacher Institute was a research and policy organization aimed at promoting reproductive rights.
But as the use of abortion medication increases, there are therefore conservative efforts to prohibit it.
This year, more than a dozen States introduced accounts BALKTAGENGE TO ABORTUS FOR Medications By criminalizing the sale, purchase or distribution, according to To Guttmacher.
Such a bill in Texas, which could have been a blueprint for the limitation of medication abortion in other states, was Specifically aimed at groups such as AID access. It would have enabled private citizens to prosecute at least $ 100,000 that everyone who has given abortion pills in Texas. The bill was adopted to the Senate of Texas, but died in the house in May.
Earlier this year, the state of Louisiana A doctor in New York accused in accusation according to his abortion prohibition law For providing abortus pills to a Louisiana -Tiener via TeleHealth. New York, that has adopted a shield law in 2023Louisiana refused to deliver the doctor.
Last month, the first federal test of shield laws marked, when A man from Texas sued a doctor in California For alleged abortion pills to his partner.
This week, a woman in Texas filed a federal lawsuit against Aid Access and to a man she said that her impregnated, then accelerated her drink with abortion pills. She also complains to the Dutch doctor who has set up aid access and claims that access to help and the founder has emailed abortion-inducing drugs in violation of Texas and federal legislation.
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