Foreign Virtual Abortion Drug Rx Eyed As TX Ruling Looms

By Cara Smith / March 16, 2023 at 9:55 AM
As anti-abortion states aim to prevent or criminalize medication abortion access via telehealth, an abortion researcher says patients may end up relying on virtual abortion access based outside the United States. Future telehealth access to medication abortion in all states may hinge on a Texas lawsuit that could reverse FDA’s 20-year-old-plus approval of mifepristone, coming as abortion care experts tout the benefits of virtual health. Aid Access, and other reproductive health services, provide access to abortion medications that are manufactured...


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