03/18/2020 | Mother Jones | Becca Andrews
As COVID-19 spread in the US, a new need for telemedicine abortion arose, both as a public health measure to allow social distancing as well as to provide access to abortion care in states that were using COVID to limit abortion access.
12/04/2019 | American Journal of Public Health | Aiken et. al.
This peer-reviewed paper assesses the demand for telemedicine abortion by looking at requests received by the organization Women on Web (WoW) from 2017-2018. They found that there was prevalent demand for online, self-managed abortion care.
05/16/2019 | Guttmacher
Guttmacher outlines what telemedicine is, how it can be used to expand access to abortion care, and the current challenges and barriers to implementing telemedicine in abortion care. Of note, this was written before COVID-19, so it does not include information about how telemedicine’s use in abortion care in the past year.
USA Today | By Kathaleen Pittman | June 30, 2020
Kathaleen Pittman, the clinic administrator at Hope Medical Group for Women, the lead Plaintiff in June Medical Services v. Russo urges people to continue fighting despite this victory because abortion access is still at risk as new regulations are created and enforced.
Slate | By Mark Joseph Stern | June 29, 2020
While Chief Justice Roberts siding with the liberal justices on this case presented a clear benefit, he did so with a caveat and wrote a separate opinion. This opinion concurred with the judgment to strike down Act 620, but narrowed the scope of the “undue burden” precedent set in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This piece discussed how this legal strategy works and the implications it could have on abortion access in the future.
Mother Jones | By Becca Andrews | June 29, 2020
ABC news | By Alexandra Svokos | June 29, 2020
ABC News | By Alexandra Svokos | June 21, 2020
O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law | By: Rebecca Reingold | March 9, 2020
Center for American Progress | By Jamille Fields Allsbrook and Nora Ellman | February 6, 2020
This article by the Center for American Progress provides a detailed overview of all aspects of this court case. It reviews a brief history of SCOTUS precedent on abortion rights and discusses the trajectory of this case through the courts up to the Supreme Court. This piece also examines the potential impacts of this case on numerous groups of people, including those in the south, people of color, low-income people, those with disabilities, young populations, and TGQN folks.
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