{"id":228950,"date":"2020-08-15T13:35:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=228950"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:10:18","slug":"abortion-pill-wreaking-havoc-children-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-wreaking-havoc-children-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The abortion pill is wreaking havoc on children and women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(The Washington Examiner<\/a>)\u00a0Government regulation of the chemical abortion pill has changed dramatically in recent weeks.\u00a0 Last month, a federal judge ruled that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, an abortion provider should not have to require that a pregnant woman be seen in person by medical staff in order to obtain abortion drugs to end the life of her preborn child. Even though it was the abortion industry challenging this existing regulation – not patients – the ruling by Maryland U.S. district judge Theodore D. Chuang stated that the \u201cin-person requirements\u201d posed a \u201csubstantial obstacle\u201d to women seeking abortions. As a result, the ruling allows abortion businesses to sell abortion pills directly to pregnant women without any in-person evaluation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expanding access to chemical abortion pills was an important goal for the abortion industry even ere the pandemic.\u00a0 In 2017, the ACLU filed a lawsuit to make abortion pills available without a visit to the doctor.\u00a0 In 2008, telemed abortions became available in Iowa. During a telemed abortion, women obtain abortion pills after interacting with a physician remotely.\u00a0 As of 2019, Planned Parenthood was offering telemed abortions in 10 states.<\/p>\n