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Supreme Court reinstates restrictions on abortion pill

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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.

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Introduction of telemedicine for medication abortion: Changes in service delivery patterns in two U.S. states

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12/23/2020 | Contraception | Julia Kohn, Hannah Simmons

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Demand for Self-Managed Online Telemedicine Abortion in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

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07/20/2020 | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Aiken et. al.

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Telemedicine for Medication Abortion: The Time Is Now

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04/06/2020 | Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports | Betstadt et. al.

This review article outlines current restrictions for telemedicine abortion in the US, strategies for incorporating telemedicine abortion into current models of abortion care, and evidence on the safety and efficacy of telemedicine abortion.

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Abortion by Telemedicine: A Growing Option as Access to Clinics Wanes

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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.

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More Patients Seek Abortion Pills Online During Pandemic, But Face Restrictions

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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.

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The Coronavirus Is Making the Case for Abortion Via Telemedicine

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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.

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Demand for Self-Managed Medication Abortion Through an Online Telemedicine Service in the United States

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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.

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Improving Access to Abortion via Telehealth

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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.