The Hill | Tal Axelrod | 2021
Category: News articles
Time | Abigail Abrams | July 29, 2021
05/28/2021 | The Chicago Tribune | Kori Rumore and Angie Leventis Lourgos
01/21/20021 | NPR | Sarah McCammon
01/28/20021 | Time | Abigail Abrams
01/12/2021 | Politico | Alice Miranda Ollstein
Just before the end of the Trump presidency, the Supreme Court heard its first case on abortion since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court in Fall 2020. The outcome was a blow to telemedicine abortion care. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the court upheld a request by the Trump Administration to reinstate a federal rule that requires patients to pick up their abortion medications in-person from a medical provider. This ruling severely restricted the scope of telemedicine abortion since it does not allow mifepristone and misoprostol to be shipped directly to patients. We hope that in the early days of the Biden presidency, the effect of this decision will be reversed both to improve abortion access and reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure while accessing medical care.
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.
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.
The Abortion Library 