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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome GOP-led states target abortions done through medication
About 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication rather than surgery and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abortion rights advocates say the pandemic has demonstrated the value of medical care provided virtually, including the privacy and convenience of abortions taking place in a woman's home, instead of a clinic. Abortion opponents, worried the method will become increasingly prevalent, are pushing legislation in several Republican-led states to restrict it and in some cases, ban providers from prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine.
Ohio enacted a ban this year, proposing felony charges for doctors who violate it. The law was set to take effect next week, but a judge has temporarily blocked it in response to a Planned Parenthood lawsuit.
In Montana, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte is expected to sign a ban on telemedicine abortions. The measures sponsor, Rep. Sharon Greef, has called medication abortions the Wild West of the abortion industry and says the drugs should be taken under close supervision of medical professionals, not as part of a do-it-yourself abortion far from a clinic or hospital.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/some-gop-led-states-target-abortions-done-through-medication/ar-BB1fx8t8
Diamond_Dog
(31,963 posts)2naSalit
(86,515 posts)trunpified. Like Matt Gaetz, Gianforte is a wealthy asshole who wants to control people's lives at the micromanagement level.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)They don't much like women, except in bed and in the kitchen. They know we're smart, and they're afraid of that.
They take this stance because they want to control us. And that's the only reason.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)In fact, if they ban these drugs I highly recommend smuggling them in.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)It's no one's fucking business.
Women miscarry. Not all implantations make it to term.
We don't vote on anything else, just women's hoo-hoos.
This has to stop. Women have always had abortions. Women have not always had access to safe abortions. The GOP Christo fascists want more dead women, not more live births. Don't kid yourself.
no_hypocrisy
(46,067 posts)Vitamin C, will they also be banned?
DBoon
(22,354 posts)You require a woman to purchase these medications from a local pharmacy, the entire town will soon know she terminated a pregnancy.
HIPAA be damned, people gossip.
Sugarmaggie
(110 posts)then give me the right to chop off your testicles. No, then shut the f up!