Will at-home abortions make Roe v. Wade obsolete?

[DonViejo]

Pressure mounts on Biden to approve telemedicine for the use of abortion pills.

By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and DARIUS TAHIR

03/20/2021 07:00 AM EDT

The battle over abortion rights has a dramatic new front: the fight over whether the Biden administration will make pills available online.

Even as they keep a sharp eye on the increasingly conservative Supreme Court, activists, lawmakers and medical groups are pushing Biden’s FDA to lift restrictions on a 20-year-old drug for terminating early pregnancies. Such a decision would dramatically remake the abortion landscape by making the pills available online and by mail even if the Supreme Court overturns or cuts back Roe vs. Wade.

Pressure that had already been building for years over access to telemedicine abortions is reaching a peak, as patients fearful of Covid-19 are seeking to avoid in-person medical procedures whenever possible and demand for the drug has skyrocketed.

As the Biden administration deliberates on the federal rules on where, when and from whom patients can get the pills, with a federal court deadline looming in early April, conservatives are already erecting barriers. In court, in Congress and in statehouses across the country, they’re working to preemptively ban the pills or make them more difficult to obtain — with bills now pending in Indiana, Montana, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, Iowa this year alone.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Do it! nt

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. No, however....

Although I'd caution against moving this to the forefront--sell telemedicine and its advantages for all sorts of dx and rx needs.

Specifically telling the idiots on the other side that this might be a benefit to telemedicine will make them rail against it.

The headline terrified me: Will At Home Abortions make Roe Obsolete made me think of the old at home abortions, the kind that got women killed. I'm old enough to know that if we ended Roe we'd have more dead women, not fewer abortions.

It's part an parcel of not seeing women as real people. For certain segments of white male patriarchy, all of the rest of us are there to serve them, and our humanity and agency is to be silenced and diminished.

I know you didn't write the headline. We're in a time where language matters.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Bring the day.

[Bayard]

4. Rethuglicans must have not noticed that one yet

Time to mount their high-horses.