Telemedicine and mail-in abortions are safe and effective, study finds
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Taking abortion pills prescribed via telemedicine and received by mail — a method used by a growing number of abortion patients — is as safe and effective as when the pills are obtained by visiting a doctor. doctor, a large new study has found. The method was about 98 percent effective and was safe for more than 99 percent of patients, according to the study.
Mifepristone , the first pill administered as part of a two-drug abortion regimen.Credit...Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersThe study, led by Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studied the experiences of more than 6,000 patients in the months after the federal government began allowing abortion pills to be mailed, April 2021 to January 2022.
Patients used one of three telemedicine abortion organizations – Hey Jane, Abortion on Demand or Choice – which served 20 states and Washington, D.C. The research, published Thursday in Nature Medicine, was completed five months before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sparking a wave of state bans and restrictions on abortion. Since then, more telemedicine services have opened and are used by many patients who consider this method more convenient, private and affordable than visiting a clinic or doctor, especially if they have to travel to another state .
Study services prescribed pills to patients 10 weeks or less pregnant (one service had an eight-week limit) and screened patients for
Taking abortion pills prescribed via telemedicine and received by mail — a method used by a growing number of abortion patients — is as safe and effective as when the pills are obtained by visiting a doctor. doctor, a large new study has found. The method was about 98 percent effective and was safe for more than 99 percent of patients, according to the study.
Mifepristone , the first pill administered as part of a two-drug abortion regimen.Credit...Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersThe study, led by Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studied the experiences of more than 6,000 patients in the months after the federal government began allowing abortion pills to be mailed, April 2021 to January 2022.
Patients used one of three telemedicine abortion organizations – Hey Jane, Abortion on Demand or Choice – which served 20 states and Washington, D.C. The research, published Thursday in Nature Medicine, was completed five months before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sparking a wave of state bans and restrictions on abortion. Since then, more telemedicine services have opened and are used by many patients who consider this method more convenient, private and affordable than visiting a clinic or doctor, especially if they have to travel to another state .
Study services prescribed pills to patients 10 weeks or less pregnant (one service had an eight-week limit) and screened patients for
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