Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky launched an initiative to help people obtain medication abortion pills in advance of an unwanted pregnancy. The effort is framed as a response to continued anti-abortion actions aimed at restricting access to abortion care. Planned Parenthood emphasizes that medication abortion is safe and effective and that anti-abortion lawmakers interfere between patients and their care. The initiative includes ordering medication abortions ahead of time, including mifepristone and misoprostol. The initiative is described as “Just in Case Abortion Pills,” and it is noted that abortion pills have a shelf life of about two years depending on the brand, with expiration dates printed on packaging.
"Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky-affiliates of the nation's biggest single provider of abortions-launched their own initiative to help people buy abortion pills (also known as advance provisions) ahead of an unwanted pregnancy. "Despite overwhelming evidence proving that medication abortion is safe and effective, anti-abortion lawmakers continue to attack access, trying to get between patients and their care," the organization's chief of clinical transformation and medical affairs, Dr. Colleen McNicholas, told Jezebel in a statement."
""But while anti-abortion groups chase an extremist ideological agenda and demand the FDA reevaluate a demonstrably safe medication, Planned Parenthood is doing everything we can to expand access and keep people protected." Don't actually store these pills in your medicine cabinet, too much moisture in bathrooms But: "The medication has a shelf life of about two years, depending on the brand, and the expiration date is printed on the packaging.""
"Through "Just in Case Abortion Pills," people in Hawaii and Washington can order medication abortions-including mifepristone and misoprostol-ahead of an unwanted pregnancy. The organization joins a roster of other providers that have been providing advance provisions, such as Aid Access, a Netherlands-based provider that services people in all 50 states-and comes at a time in which access to medication ab"
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