(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) In mild of the FDA’s recent decision to completely elevate restrictions on mail-order abortions, a number of states have moved to ban the out-of-state distribution of abortion drugs, according to Breitbart.
Breitbart pointed to reviews from each Kaiser Health News and the Guttmacher Institute, which point out that a minimum of seven states have lately taken steps to forestall out-of-state medical doctors from prescribing abortion drugs to residents of their respective states, together with Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee, amongst others.
In Georgia, Republican Sen. Bruce Thompson launched Senate Bill 351 into the State Meeting on Jan. 25.
The invoice would make it “illegal for any producer, provider, doctor, certified doctor, or some other individual to offer any abortion-inducing drug by way of courier, supply, telemedicine, or mail service.”
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Thompson told the Related Press that he thought allotting dangerous abortion medicine by way of the mail was too harmful.
“It places nice danger on these females who make that selection,” Thompson stated. “What we’re asking is that these females have a doctor concerned.”
The same invoice — HB2416 — has been launched within the Tennessee Normal Meeting.
“On this state, now we have a possibility to place security measures round chemical abortion which at present permits using telemedicine and courier supply, versus a certified examination and direct distribution of highly effective medicines,” the invoice’s sponsor told the Tennessean.
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An article in Vox described the cavalier method wherein abortion “telehealth” firms distribute their lethal “drugs.”
“As soon as a affected person decides on a service that’s legally allowed to ship to their state — like Hey Jane, My Choix, Simply the Capsule, or Carafem — they fill out a medical historical past questionnaire, be taught in regards to the therapy, and signal just a few consent kinds,” Vox reported.
“Then, inside hours, they’ll hear again from a doctor in the event that they’re eligible to handle the process at dwelling; the drugs arrive in a single to 5 days.”
Vox additionally reported that a minimum of 19 states already require “the prescribing clinician to be bodily current when the drugs are taken.”
