As of October 2020, Just the Pill has provided more than 2,500 telemedicine consultations with physicians to deliver abortion pills by mail to patients in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming. Over the next few days, it plans to roll out in Colorado, where it will first become “a fleet of mobile clinics” to park along state borders, said Dr. Julie Amaon, the organization’s medical director. , which provides medical abortion counseling and medication dispensing, said.
Called “Delivered Abortion,” the abortion-supporting program, which will also offer surgical abortions to patients who prefer or are not too far pregnant to have a medical abortion, is designed to reach patients from neighboring states like Texas, Oklahoma, and South Dakota that were quick to ban abortion following the court decision, as well as other states like Utah that were supposed to ban or strongly restrict abortion .
Dr Amaon said: “By operating at state borders, we will reduce the travel burden for patients in states with severe bans or restrictions. “And by going beyond a traditional clinic, our mobile clinics can quickly adapt to the courts, state legislatures and markets, going wherever the need arises. .”
Similar drug abortion providers are planning a flood in. Hey Jane, an organization that has served nearly 10,000 patients in California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, New York and Washington, plans to expand to more states. “We have beefed up our team to meet this dramatically increased demand,” said its chief executive, Kiki Freedman.
Anti-abortion groups are trying to counter the growing interest in medical abortion by calling it unsafe, calling it “medicinal abortion”. James Studnicki, vice president of data analytics at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an affiliate of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said Friday that “The safety of abortion pills has been greatly exaggerated,” and called the rise in drug abortions “a serious public health threat.”
There are still many unknowns about how states ban abortion or most will attempt to enforce their laws in drug abortion cases. But as the Biden administration tried to respond to the court’s ruling, two cabinet members quickly issued a statement pledging to protect federally approved drug rights.
