Federal judge rules that women can get abortion pills without a doctor's visit during the pandemic
medical abortion care creates a “substantial obstacle;” one that is probably not constitutional in light of the pandemic. As the ACLU, who filed the lawsuit, writes:Even during the pandemic, the FDA continued to require patients to travel to a hospital, clinic, or medical office to pick up the mifepristone, prohibiting patients who had already been evaluated by a clinician from filling their mifepristone prescription by mail.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, as well as other groups, sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA over the in-person rule earlier this year,it violated the constitutional right to an abortion and the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.The government argued that in-person visits were required to maintain patient safety.
Skye Perryman, the chief legal officer for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said that on the contrary,“do not advance the health and safety of patients.”“Today’s ruling recognizes the hardship and undue burden that many women have faced obtaining essential health care during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Perryman told the AP.ore than 4 million people in the U.S. have used mifepristone and misoprostol to induce abortion.
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