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By Julia Harte (Reuters) - U.S. telehealth abortion providers scrambled on Thursday to keep their services available after a federal appeals court rul.
"If it were to become the law, it would be absolutely catastrophic," an ACLU lawyer said of the Comstock Act, which the Supreme Court could resuscitate.
US telehealth and in-person abortion providers scrambled on Thursday to keep medication abortion services available after a federal appeals court ruled that mifepristone could be distributed amid ongoing litigation but with significant restrictions.