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Rachel Rebouché, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin

Medication abortion: Decisions from federal courts, the FDA or Trump’s Department of Justice could try to end access via telehealth

Boxes of the drug mifepristone line a shelf at a women's center in Alabama on March 16, 2022. AP Photo/Allen G. Breed

Roughly two-thirds of Americans end their pregnancies by taking two abortion medications – misoprostol and mifepristone. Because these safe, effective medications can be prescribed via telehealth, without an in-office visit, they are how most patients terminate pregnancies in states that ban abortion.

In recent years, anti-abortion groups and lawmakers have seeded a number of challenges to medication abortion. This year, several are coming to fruition.

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