WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge in Texas says 3 other states can pursue their effort to stop telehealth abortion pill prescriptions nationwide.

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.

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

Statesman columnist Bridget Grumet speaks about her trip to Delaware to investigate the access Texas women have to abortion by mail.

Texas has outlawed most abortions and forbids sending abortion medication through the mail. That didn’t stop thousands of Texans from finding abortion pills online.

Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C, an information repository about telehealth abortion access, said they expect any challenge to their work to run afoul of free speech protections. “Texas is a state that values free speech, but despite that, they're ...

“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.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center launched the program to provide free breast cancer detection for women in rural parts of the state.

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri can pursue legal action to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from allowing online prescriptions.

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

Abortion policy could see more changes across the U.S. as President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term and state legislative sessions get rolling.