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3 months agoMedicine
California Push to Expand Abortion Care Providers May Prove Boon to Rural Areas
Expanding access to abortion care by allowing physician assistants to perform first-trimester abortions without a supervising physician present.
Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives are now permitted to perform abortions without a doctor present, helping to address the shortage of abortion care providers. [ more ]