FDA Lifts Key Restriction on Abortion Pill

[kpete]

“The Biden administration Thursday ended a long-standing restriction on a medication used to terminate early-stage pregnancies, even as politicians across the United States intensified efforts that represent the most serious challenge to abortion rights in decades,” the Washington Post reports.

“The elimination of the regulation, which had been temporarily suspended, means abortion pills can be prescribed through telehealth consultations and mailed to patients. But in large swaths of the nation, strict state rules will dampen the impact. Several states ban sending the drug by mail and impose other restrictions on use of the pill.”

https://politicalwire.com/2021/12/16/fda-lifts-key-restriction-on-abortion-pill/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!!!!!!!!!!! Fantastic news!!!!!!!!!!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Thank you. ❤

[Wounded Bear]

3. Good to hear, but wish we could codify it into law...

If not, next repub pres will just shut it off again.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. This is helpful to a lot of people, but a lot of other people don't have access because of state

laws.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Would love to see RTL receiving and taking it.

[LiberalFighter]

6. What other drugs do states regulate?

[LiberalFighter]

7. Can states regulate mail delivery?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. It's not a mail regulation that was lifted; it was a requirement that people had to show up in

person to receive the pills. Telemedicine abortions are specifically banned in almost 20 states.

[David__77]

9. Can't people I those states just get remote consult with someone in another state?

…

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. That's a telemedicine abortion, and people in some states cannot access abortion pills that way.

[David__77]

11. Can't pro-choice states help with this?

For instance, couldn’t California state that it is not a crime for a physician to facilitate a telemedicine abortion anywhere in the US? If they did that, who would prosecute the physician?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. A doc in California is not going to risk their license to break a state law to prescribe

abortion pills to someone in Alabama, where it is the law that the prescribing provider has to be in the same room as the patient.

There are already a lot of workarounds in place -- people in other countries who are willing to consult with people and mail them the pills themselves. These aren't perfect or risk-free, and they're certainly not available to everyone who wants an abortion, but it is a helpful option. You can learn more at www.ShareAbortionPill.info

[LeftInTX]

13. Doctors in California have the "right to refuse"

They have the right and responsibility to assure that the patient in Texas will be treated properly by physicians in Texas if there are complications with a procedure.

One often does not realize that providers can "deny service for any reason"....

I've been dumped by doctors. One doctor dumped me when I was pregnant. Said I was "high risk"...(She was my family doc and didn't want to prescribe me meds when I was pregnant so she dumped me via certified mail)