A study from the University of Washington on clinics' and primary care doctors' means of dispensing abortion medications during the pandemic may offer guidance for clinicians in a post-Roe v. Wade world. FOX13
, published Monday in the Annals of Family Medicine, examined services provided by family medicine clinicians in a variety of settings: family planning clinics, online medical services and primary care practices.
Most abortion pills — a combination of two medications, mifepristone and misoprostol — are currently dispensed by independent reproductive health clinics, according to the study's senior author Dr.With increasing restrictions on access to abortion care, the study provides "a roadmap for primary care and OB-GYN clinicians to rapidly initiate telemedicine abortion for patients, where the law allows," Godfrey said.
The asynchronous method of patient-provider communication usually took only two to three minutes of the clinician’s time, the study reported, in contrast to video calls that took an average of 10 to 30 minutes. Regardless of the setting, the medications were all delivered to the patient by mail. The Biden administration is reminding pharmacies that they are not allowed to refuse abortion-related prescriptions.that removed the constitutional right to abortion.
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