Clinic provides a medication department through telegesundheit services even for people in states in which abortion is prohibited, partly thanks to the shield laws in states in which the abortion is still legal. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
In state legislators across the country, the abortion of medication has developed as a central focus of the struggle for abortion rights. As a democratic legislator in blue states Shield laws In order to protect abortion medication, their Republican colleagues – especially in states who have banned abortion, enter a flood of invoices to limit access.
Medicines abortion made up Almost two thirds Of all clinically presented abortions in states without a total dismissal bans in 2023, the latest data from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and political organization, became concentrated on the promotion of reproductive rights.
operate Medicines to end pregnancy Requires two succession: Mifepriston to stop pregnancy, and Misoprostol to induce contractions in the uterus to switch off pregnancy tissue. These drugs are also used by medical providers for other diseases, including the management of miscarriages and for the treatment of postpartum bleeding.
Research It has shown that medication abortation is effective and unthreatening, with complications require a hospital stay in less than 0.3% of the patients. Research It has also been shown that medication abortions via telemedicine are effective and unthreatening and are comparable to personal medication scanning.
Read on to maintain an update via GOP-led state efforts to restrict access to abortion medication:
Control of abortion pills as controlled substances
Last year Louisiana – who banned abortion – was the first state to adopt a law Appendix IV Controlled substances in the same class as medication as Xanax and Valium. Hospitals in the state Change how the medication is savedClosure protected in Passcode protected containers outside of delivery rooms. Doctors in the state said The new restrictions have impaired their treatment of patients or influenced them negatively.
Republican legislators in KentuckyPresent Missouri And Texas Introduced similar laws in their latest legislative sessions, although all three legislative proposals died in the committee.
Further states are expected to follow Louisiana’s leadership in the upcoming legislative period.
Prohibition and restriction of abortions from telemedicine
While most abortions appear personally, telemedicine is a growing provider. By the end of last year, 1 of 4 abortions was provided via telegesundheitAccording to #WOUNT, national reporting from the Society for Family Planning, an abortion research organization.
Around Half of it were sent by providers who practiced in states with shield laws that sent abortion pills to people in countries in states with telemedicine restrictions, six -week abortion bans or overall bans of abortions.
Nine states According to KFF, a research and political organization currently prohibited laws that expressly prohibited Telemealth’s displacement or sending medication discharge medication. These are Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
Eight democratically guided states Let the shield laws for the protection of providers who offer patients via Telehealth via state lines, protect: California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
But GOP-led states defend themselves.
According to Jennifer Driver, who pursues the politics of the reproductive state for the state exchange of innovation, the legislature introduced legal templates in at least 14 states in order to criminalize the purchase, prescription and distribution of medication abortions.
In July, 15 General Prosecutors of the Republicans signed a letter Due to the congress of prohibiting such shield laws because they said, the laws disturb the ability of the states to enforce their own criminal laws.
Allow citizens’ lawsuits
This month the Texas legislator said goodbye A economical calculation This would enable Texans to sue doctors, manufacturers and others from outside the state that send abortion medication into the state. It also prohibits the production of abortion medications in Texas. It is now on the way to the Republican governor Greg Abbott, from which he is expected to sign it.
The law is expected to introduce a legal dispute over whether the laws of a state can be enforced in another state.
Meanwhile a Louisiana The law adopted in June and referred to as “justice for victims of abortion drug dealers” enables the mother of a fetus to sue doctors and activists outside the state To carry out or facilitate medication abortationAnd extends the window for such complaints from three to five years.
The Stateline reporter Anna Claire full of can be achieved aollers@stateline.org.
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