FDA to permanently allow abortion pills by mail, a major win for advocates

NBC News ^ | December 16, 2021 | Dartunorro Clark

[Coronal]

The new rule could help some women circumvent restrictions on abortion in states like Texas, where patients must pick up the medication in person and can’t acquire it through telehealth appointments.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it will permanently allow patients to receive abortion pills by mail, expanding access to abortion as the Supreme Court wrestles with the future of Roe v. Wade.

The new rule could help some women circumvent restrictions on abortion in states like Texas, where patients must pick up the medication in person and can’t acquire it through telehealth appointments.

During the coronavirus pandemic, the FDA temporarily eased restrictions on mifepristone — which, taken with another medication called misoprostol, ends early pregnancies — so patients could temporarily order the pills by mail.

The expansion of telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic spurred greater access to the regimen, which the FDA approved in 2016 to terminate pregnancies up to 70 days' gestation.

The FDA is expanding access as the Supreme Court scrutinizes access to abortions and as several GOP-led states have taken steps to ban access to abortion medication through telehealth services.

[JoanSmith]

Lord have mercy.

[ground_fog]

Satanists . They worship the Devil

[Manic_Episode]

Yet they confiscate Ivermectin.

[curious7]

But not Ivermectin. Go figure.

[Dogbert41]

I bet you can probably get them for free too, courtesy of tax payer funded Planned Parenthood, in plain brown paper packages so your parents or husbands won’t have a clue.

[FamiliarFace]

Yet, the FDA has a problem with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

I can only wish that they would be ashamed of themselves, but I know that won’t happen.

[aimhigh]

"Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me . ." Luke 4:5-6. Before the Lord returns, we are in error if we think this country is an exception.

[caww]

Leave it to this “Biden Crime Family” Government to unleash the rider on the black horse...in no time they’ll be a stampede!

[conservativeimage]

Murder drug yes.
Live saving drug no.
I’m only paranoid because they want me dead.

[centermass_socrates]

I bet they can get an online prescription for it pretty easily. This is rubberstamping murder. Can’t this be halted by a court injunction?

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[Singermom]

So I can get an abortion pill but if I want Ivermectin to use as a preventative-THAT is not allowed.

[piasa]

Then why can’t we all get all of our meds thru mail?

[know.your.why]

Unfknbelievable. But they wont allow Ivermectin.

[Bayard]

Because big pharma.

[reg45]

How many tragic deaths or injuries will be the result of unmonitored use of a risky drug.

[Allison_Wonderland]

And the previous protocol included ruling out an ectopic pregnancy and making sure the fetus was only of a certain gestational age. This will cause plenty of unintended maternal deaths as these drugs are not meant to be unmonitored and self-prescribed without a physical exam of the woman.

[Trillian]

Just remember, the government cares about your health. /s

[Getready]

Also a good way for the family pedophile to secretly give it to the female family member he is raping, or molesting, or is coercing to have sex with himself or other men. Way to go fda....