'Lawmakers in two states in the South—Georgia and South Carolina—are considering bills that would further restrict access to medication abortion.'
, which essentially blocks pregnancy hormones, and misoprostol, which is taken up to 48 hours after the first drug and causes uterine cramps to complete the abortion, explained Dr. Amy Bryant, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Across the U.S., 33 states currently require abortion medications to be provided by a doctor and 19 states restrict the use of telemedicine for a medication abortion,. Among the 13 Southern states, telemedicine abortion is currently legal only in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia. Access to abortion care through medication and telemedicine helps many Southerners in need, said Oriaku Njoku, the co-founder of Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, a reproductive justice-focused abortion fund that serves people in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Medication abortion"offers an alternative for people to have their abortions in their own chosen settings," Njoku told Facing South in an email."And the unfortunate reality for us is thatin Georgia do not have abortion providers. This means that many Georgians are forced to travel to access abortion care."
But now state lawmakers in Georgia as well as South Carolina are fast-tracking bills that would set up new roadblocks for people seeking medication abortions—and that would have doctors disseminate potentially dangerous disinformation about reversing medication abortions. The move, which comes amid a broader"Forcing doctors to provide false information to patients violates really all standards of medical care and ethics," said Dr.
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