Clinicists provide abortion of drugs via telegles even for people in the states where abortion is prohibited, partly due to the protection of provisions in states where abortion is still legal. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
In state legislation throughout the country, abortion of drugs has become the main purpose of the fight for the rights of abortion. How democratic legislators in the blue states introduce Rights shield In order to protect abortion drugs, their Republican counterparts – especially in states that banned abortion – set out a lot of bills to limit access.
Drug abortion was taken into account Almost two -thirds Among all abortions threatened to clinicians in the United States without complete abortion in 2023, the latest data available at the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization and policy focused on the progress of reproductive rights.
Using Drugs at the end of pregnancy It requires two drugs in a row: mifepriston to stop pregnancy and mizoprostol to cause cramps in the uterus to excrete pregnancy tissue. These drugs are also used by medical service providers in different conditions, including for the management of miscarriage and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage.
Tests He showed that drug abortion is effective and safe and sound, with complications requiring hospitalization in less than 0.3% of patients. Tests She also showed that the abortion of drugs provided via the tenderness is effective and safe and sound and comparable to personal abortion of drugs.
Read more to get the update of state efforts directed by GOP to limit access to abortion drugs:
Condching abortion tablets as controlled substances
Last year, Louisiana – which banned abortion – became the first state that adopted the law of the reclaiming Mifepriston and Mizoprostol as Schedule IV Controlled substances, in the same class as drugs such as Xanax and Valium. Hospitals Change the method of storing medicinesBlocking them in containers protected in the driveway code outside the delivery rooms. Doctors in this state he said New restrictions have disturbed or negatively affected their treatment of patients.
Republican legislators in KentuckyIN Missouri AND Texas They introduced similar legislation in their latest legislative sessions, although all three laws died in the Committee.
It is expected that more states follow the Louisiana leader during the upcoming legislative session.
Prohibiting and limiting the abortion of teo
While most of the abortion occurs in person, the screening is a growing supplier. By the end of last year, 1 out of 4 abortions were delivered by teethAccording to #wecount, national efforts of Society of Family Planning, organization of abortion research.
ABOUT Half of them They came from suppliers practicing in states with provisions regarding the shield who sent abortion tablets to people in the States with teeth restrictions, six -week abortion bans or total prohibitions of abortion.
Nine states According to KFF, a research organization and politics. These are Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Karolina, Texas and West Virginia.
Eight states managed by democratic Have regulations regarding a shield aimed at protecting suppliers who offer medicine abortion via tender patients to patients from various state lines: California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
But the states run by GOP are fighting.
According to Jennifer Driver, the legislators in at least 14 states have introduced bills to criminalize the purchase, prescription and distribution of drug abortion, which follows state policy in the State Innovative Exchange, a focused organization on the transfer of progressive state provisions.
In July 15 Republican Prosecutors General signed a letter Calling the Congress to prohibit such provisions regarding the shield, because, as they said, the regulations interfere with the ability of states to enforce their own criminal provisions.
Allowing civil lawsuits
This month, the legislator of Texas was adopted First of a kind bill This would allow Texans to sue doctors, producers and other people outside the state who send abortion drugs to the state. It also prohibits the production of abortion drugs in Texas. Now he is heading to the Republican governor Greg Abbott, who is to sign it.
It is expected that the right to establish a legal struggle to whether the rights of one country may be enforced in another state.
Meanwhile Louisiana Law adopted in June and called the “Justice Act for the victims of abortion drug dealers” allows the mother of the fetus to sue doctors and activists from outside the state to perform or facilitate drug abortionAnd it expands the window to such processes from three years to five years.
Stateline reporter Anna Claire Vollers can be achieved at avollers@stateline.org.
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