{"id":12753,"date":"2024-01-27T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:24:50","slug":"access-to-abortion-pills-has-grown-since-dobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12753","title":{"rendered":"Access to abortion pills has grown since Dobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Since the June 2022 decision, abortion rates in states with restrictions have plummeted, and researchers estimated<\/a> last month that the Dobbs <\/em>decision led to \u201capproximately 32,000 additional annual births resulting from bans.\u201d Journalists profiled women<\/a> who carried to term since Dobbs <\/em>because they couldn\u2019t afford to travel out of their restrictive state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total number of abortions in the US, however, has increased<\/a> since the overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>driven by more people ending pregnancies in states that have laws friendly to abortion care.And often lost in this conversationis the fact that access to medication abortion has actually expanded in significant ways since the overturn of Roe <\/em>v. Wade, <\/em>both in terms of lower costs and avenues to obtain the pills quickly. <\/em>The problem is many people who would be able to take advantagedon\u2019t know about it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One of the biggest expansions to access since Dobbs<\/em> is via broader access to telehealth abortion care in the US, even for those living in states with bans. Telehealth abortion care means a patient can consult virtually with a provider, either on an app or in a phone call or videoconference. Following that consultation, the provider would fill a prescription for the medication, and it would be delivered via mail.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One major facilitator of expanded telemedicine is the profusion of new so-called \u201cshield laws\u201d <\/a>that would protect blue-state abortion providers who send pills to people living in states where abortion is illegal. Today, six states \u2014 New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Washington, Colorado, and California \u2014 have such telemedicine abortion shield laws, though not all have taken effect (California\u2019s won\u2019t until January 1<\/a>).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While these laws have yet to be tested in court, providers expect legal challenges eventually and have been taking steps to protect themselves, like avoiding travel to states with abortion bans in case a prosecutor tries to arrest them for violating their criminal statute.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Outside of telemedicine options, there are over two dozen e-commerce websites that sell and ship medication abortion to the US. This international supply chain has grown significantly<\/a> since Dobbs <\/em>and most of these sites do not require prescriptions and do not require people to upload their IDs or have medical consultations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2023\/12\/27\/24015092\/abortion-pills-mifepristone-roe-reproductive-misoprostol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Since the June 2022 decision, abortion rates in states with restrictions have plummeted, and researchers estimated last month that the Dobbs decision led to \u201capproximately 32,000 additional annual births resulting from bans.\u201d Journalists profiled women who carried to term since Dobbs because they couldn\u2019t afford to travel out of their restrictive state.
\nThe total number of abortions in the US, however, has increased since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, driven by more people ending pregnancies in states that have laws friendly to abortion care. And often lost in this conversation is the fact that access to medication abortion has actually expanded in significant ways since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, both in terms of lower costs and avenues to obtain the pills quickly. The problem is many people who would be able to take advantage don\u2019t know about it.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“One of the biggest expansions to access since Dobbs is via broader access to telehealth abortion care in the US, even for those living in states with bans. Telehealth abortion care means a patient can consult virtually with a provider, either on an app or in a phone call or videoconference. Following that consultation, the provider would fill a prescription for the medication, and it would be delivered via mail.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“One major facilitator of expanded telemedicine is the profusion of new so-called \u201cshield laws\u201d that would protect blue-state abortion providers who send pills to people living in states where abortion is illegal. Today, six states \u2014 New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Washington, Colorado, and California \u2014 have such telemedicine abortion shield laws, though not all have taken effect (California\u2019s won\u2019t until January 1).”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“While these laws have yet to be tested in court, providers expect legal challenges eventually and have been taking steps to protect themselves, like avoiding travel to states with abortion bans in case a prosecutor tries to arrest them for violating their criminal statute.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Outside of telemedicine options, there are over two dozen e-commerce websites that sell and ship medication abortion to the US. This international supply chain has grown significantly since Dobbs and most of these sites do not require prescriptions and do not require people to upload their IDs or have medical consultations.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2023\/12\/27\/24015092\/abortion-pills-mifepristone-roe-reproductive-misoprostol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,1227],"class_list":["post-12753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-roe-v-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12754,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}