She was the paper's co-lead author. The research began at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when receiving abortion medication via telehealth and through the mail was novel, Godfrey said. Over the study span and beyond, "there was exponential growth" of ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to allow states to regulate abortion, support for expanded access to abortion pills has significantly increased, including among those living in states with abortion bans,

Taking abortion pills at home helps reduce stigma associated with pregnancy termination, according to recent findings. “It’s intuitive to understand that people are afraid of protesters outside of abortion clinics.

“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.

An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 when the U.

Explore how telehealth and mail services have become essential for abortion access in states with abortion restrictions.

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri can pursue legal action to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from allowing online prescriptions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge in Texas says 3 other states can pursue their effort to stop telehealth abortion pill prescriptions nationwide.

Cecile Richards, a national leader for women's rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67.

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will restore sweeping power to anti-abortion activists’ staunchest ally, who many in the movement once deemed “the most pro-life president” in the nation’s history.

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone and require that it be used only in the first seven weeks of