"The telehealth abortion process starts with a patient connecting with a healthcare provider on the phone or online. If the patient is eligible, the provider can prescribe two medications mifepristone and another drug called misoprostol. Patients can pick up the medicine at a local pharmacy, or providers can mail the drugs to a patient's home. That access is a big part of the reason why the number of abortions nationally has actually increased since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022."
The Supreme Court kept existing medication abortion access in place by staying a May 1 ruling from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The stayed ruling would have barred mifepristone from being mailed nationwide, rather than only affecting states with abortion bans such as Louisiana. The Supreme Court’s order allows mifepristone to remain available through telehealth as the Louisiana case against the Food and Drug Administration proceeds through lower courts. The order was issued around 5:30 p.m., after a self-imposed deadline. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented, criticizing the order as unreasoned and remarkable. Telehealth abortion involves a patient connecting with a provider online or by phone, receiving prescriptions for mifepristone and misoprostol, and obtaining the drugs through local pharmacies or mailed delivery.
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