You can get the abortion pill by mail for now, the FDA ruled. But it's still an ongoing legal battle

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https://www.thelily.com/you-can-get-the-abortion-pill-by-mail-for-now-the-fda-ruled-but-its-still-an-ongoing-legal-battle/

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FDA acting commissioner Janet Woodcock announced the agency’s decision to make mifepristone available by mail in a letter to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, one of many medical groups that has sued over restrictions on distribution of the drug under the Trump administration. Woodcock noted that the agency’s review of recent studies shows it’s safe for people to take the pill without receiving it from a doctor in person, and that providing the pill by mail could lessen the risk of spreading the coronavirus.

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Although abortion by medication is legal in every state, 19 states prohibit the use of telemedicine to prescribe abortion pills, including by requiring the clinician providing a medication abortion to be present when the drug is administered. The FDA’s announcement will not override those state laws, according to Julia Kaye, staff attorney at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project and the lead counsel in two federal lawsuits seeking to eliminate restrictions on mifepristone distribution for abortion.

But now that the FDA has authorized mifepristone to be at least temporarily available by mail in the majority of states, Phifer and many other providers hope the decision will become longer-lasting, beyond the pandemic. They argue making the abortion pill permanently available by mail and via telemedicine would provide more people with easier access to abortions, as the barriers that come with traveling to physical clinics will be eliminated or lessened.
“We as a society have forced these people to remain pregnant,” Phifer said. “As a woman and an abortion provider, it’s infuriating.”

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*****Of course I’m sure anti choice groups and lawmakers are working hard to prohibit this medication being delivered by mail.