Health Care

Red states advance bills to restrict access to abortion medication

Lawmakers want to prevent providers in other states from undermining bans through telehealth prescriptions.
An abortion- rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Republican-led states are increasingly moving to criminalize abortion pills, coalescing around a coordinated strategy to block the medications from being mailed into states where abortion is banned.

Lawmakers in at least 10 states are considering bills this year aimed at restricting access to mifepristone and misoprostol — the two-drug regimen that accounts for more than half of abortions in the United States — even when the drugs are prescribed from states where abortion remains legal. 

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