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Category: Internet articles
04/28/2020 | NY Times | Pam Belluck
As COVID-19 spread through the US, so did the need for telemedicine abortion care. This NY Times piece showcases the stories of various patients who found telemedicine medication abortion to be their best option. This article focuses on the organization, TelAbortion.
03/18/2020 | NPR | Sarah McCammon
This NPR articles demonstrates the need for telemedicine in abortion care through the story of a woman in South Dakota who had to travel 3 hours, with her children, to access medical care during a pandemic because telemedicine abortion care was unavailable due to state restrictions.
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.
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.
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.
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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