Abortion-by-Mail Pilot Program Could Usher In Women’s Health Revolution
(COMMON DREAMS) Deirdre Fulton, April 1, 2016 — A first-its-kind pilot program, launching in four states this spring, aims to expand medical abortion access for women at a time when brick-and-mortar clinics are closing at a record pace.
The Guardian reported Thursday on the program, which will be run as a pilot study out of clinics in four states—New York, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. It is the brainchild of the New York-based research group Gynuity Health Projects, which seeks to make reproductive health technologies more convenient, more acceptable, safer, and more widely accessible.
According to the Guardian, the study “may…finally deliver on what reproductive rights advocates have always seen as the true promise of abortion drugs: abortion, without the clinic.”