“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.

Taking abortion pills at home helps reduce stigma associated with pregnancy termination, according to recent findings. “It’s intuitive to understand that people are afraid of protesters outside of abortion clinics.

She was the paper's co-lead author. The research began at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when receiving abortion medication via telehealth and through the mail was novel, Godfrey said. Over the study span and beyond, "there was exponential growth" of ...

An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 when the U.

Nearly half of those prescriptions went to patients in states with abortion bans or restrictions on telehealth abortion. A shipment containing enough pills for 162 medication abortions is unpacked ...

Federal regulations do allow abortion-inducing drugs to be accessed through telehealth services and mailed to patients ― such as from abortion-allowing states to abortion-restricting states.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Women who live far from an abortion clinic depend on telehealth and mail to obtain access to medication abortion, a new study says. Each 100-mile ...

She was the paper's co-lead author. The research began at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when receiving abortion medication via telehealth and through the mail was novel, Godfrey said.

The Trump-appointed federal judge who unilaterally ordered the FDA to revoke approval of an abortion drug allowed Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to move forward in another lawsuit over mifepristone.

A judge in Texas says 3 other states can pursue their effort to stop telehealth abortion pill prescriptions nationwide

A federal judge in Texas ruled that three states can challenge the current rules of accessibility for abortion pills.