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The U.S. sees a rise in abortions, largely driven by telehealth services providing abortion medication remotely.
Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to ...
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, monthly abortions have increased each year, a new report shows. Abortion pills, ...
Telehealth abortion – which is available up to about 10 weeks gestational age in the U.S. – requires much less clinician involvement than the pre-pandemic experience of providing an early ...
Research has long found that medication abortion is safe and effective, but a new study shows that to be true even when the patient gets the medicine through a telehealth appointment.
The number of abortions in the U.S. continued to climb in 2024, driven in part by a dramatic increase in telemedicine access, especially in states that have enacted near-total bans on the procedure, ...
Once someone decides they need an abortion, they will go to great lengths to get one because they know it is the right ...
More than 40,000 people accessed telehealth abortions under shield laws in the second half of 2023, according to the new report. And by December, nearly a 10th of all abortions in the US — about ...
Telehealth abortion providers say they screen for complications, such as patients with symptoms of ectopic pregnancies or severe anemia, as well as those with pregnancies at a later gestational age.
The F.D.A. first allowed telemedicine abortion in 2020, following an emergency court decision made early in the pandemic and after extensive data demonstrated that it was a safe and effective way ...
Telehealth and shield laws aided abortion rise last year, report says. The total number of abortions continued its post-Roe v. Wade rise in 2024, despite bans and restrictions in many states.
Other telehealth abortion providers said they also won’t be deterred by legal threats. “I have been working in this field for 25 years and this is part of the work,” said Dr. Rebecca ...