In Massachusetts, Maine Family Planning is offering telemedicine abortion, operating under a research exception to the FDA restriction.
Abortion activists outside the Supreme Court in 2012. (Blink O’fanaye / Flickr)
This article orginally appeared in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. It is published here with permission.
On Jan. 12, the Supreme Court reinstated a Food and Drug Administration rule requiring patients seeking the abortion pill to make an unnecessary, in-person visit to their health care providers. Despite this decision, access to abortion in Massachusetts is expanding, and not just because of the recently-passed ROE Act.
Just last month, Maine Family Planning started offering telemedicine abortion in Massachusetts, operating under a research exception to the FDA restriction.