“That’s how modern medical care works—you get your medicines in the mail. So there’s no reason for this law other than it’s punitive and trying to restrict access to abortion care.”
According to Wells, S.B. 4 is redundant at this point because of other barriers to medication abortion. Texas already has a ban on telemedicine abortion—whichalso have—which requires a clinician to be in the physical presence of a patient when they prescribe abortion pills.
In addition to banning doctors from mailing abortion pills, S.B. 4 also prohibits doctors from prescribing abortion pills after seven weeks—three weeks before the current FDA limit of 10 weeks. The Texas law is unlikely to slow the tide of abortion pills coming into the state by mail because many online pharmacies and clinics that mail pills are based outside of the state or the country., for example, is based in Europe. Founded and run by Dr.
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