{"id":261900,"date":"2022-02-03T16:43:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261900"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:01:41","slug":"abortion-pill-network-normalize-abortion-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-network-normalize-abortion-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion pill network hopes to ‘normalize abortion’ and make it more common"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The goal of the abortion industry, despite a once-espoused desire to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare,” has always been to make abortion accessible, available, and “normal” \u2014 and therefore, common<\/em>. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Biden-Harris Administration has largely aided in this goal by loosening the safety protocols on the abortion pill known as REMS, which now allows the abortion pill to be dispensed by mail under a “no-test” protocol \u2014 meaning without ultrasound or any sort of medical exams or testing beforehand.<\/p>\n

As a result, online abortion pill dispensaries are popping up with increasing speed. One new abortion pill network that has emerged to\u00a0assist<\/a> online dispensaries to hang up their “virtual shingle” and “normalize abortion care” is the MYA Network. It\u00a0describes<\/a> itself as an “activist group of clinicians who are working to make abortion part of routine medical care”\u00a0with the overall goal of “normaliz[ing] abortion care, medically and culturally.” The group also seeks to “create telemedicine-based abortion care in all states that allow it” and to “train and support clinicians to offer medical abortion.”<\/p>\n

“The more ‘normal’ clinicians provide ‘normal’ medical care to ‘normal’ patients, and tell our ‘normal’ stories, the harder it will be to criminalize this common, safe and essential medical service,” the group states<\/a> on its “about us” page, adding, “because abortion is healthcare, NOT politics.”<\/p>\n

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MYA Abortion Pill Network wants to normalize abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

MYA Network was launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic as a “project<\/a> of The Community Health Promotion Project (CHPP)” whose principle officer Joan Fleischman<\/a> created the New York abortion facility Early Options<\/a>. Fleischman admits\u00a0in an online video<\/a> that she wanted to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to “take advantage of this moment and make the abortion pill more accessible.”<\/p>\n

In the video<\/a> below, Fleischman\u00a0refers to herself as a “family doctor” who has “provided abortion care for over 25 years.”\u00a0She points to changes<\/a> put in place by the FDA to weaken important safety requirements on the abortion pill and allow mail order abortions.<\/p>\n

“With TelAbortion many of the barriers to main stream medical care were suddenly removed. Patients and clinicians could have remote relationships with no way to target them. One clinician could see patients in an entire state…We seized the opportunity and launched MYA Network to realize our long-term vision of normalized abortion care,”\u00a0Fleischman says.<\/p>\n