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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scaled back distribution restrictions on the abortion pill, which will effectively allow the medication to be sent to patients through the mail.

Due to the pandemic, the FDA modified their rules to permit chemical abortions to be prescribed through telemedicine and sent throught the mail, after a study determined administering the drug via USPS did not “not appear to show increases in serious safety concerns (such as hemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy, or surgical interventions).” 

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said the decision meant “that many patients in need of termination of early pregnancy will be able to access safe, effective mifepristone by mail, rather than having to risk avoidable COVID exposure to themselves and their clinicians.”

However, the Supreme Court ruled that the pills could no longer be shipped through the mail post-pandemic in January, when the Trump administration appealed the decision. As of Thursday, the FDA’s modified restrictions will once more allow the abortion drug to be routed through a mail carrier.   

The FDA conducted a risk evaluation and found that the benefits of reducing the prescribing strain on health care systems and allowing increased patient access, outweighed the potentially negative side-effects.

The agency removed the “in-person dispensing requirement” that involved healthcare settings, medical offices, and hospitals, but did add the requirement that dispensing pharmacies must be certified. The changes open the door to abortions by mail, and possibly even online purchasing.

On the state level, nearly half already bar or restrict access to abortion pills. Texas limited the use of abortion mediation after seven weeks of pregnancy with a law passed in early December. The legislation makes dispensing the aborting-inducing pill through the mail a criminal offense.  

Indiana, Oklahoma, and Montana ban use of the medication after ten-weeks, but enforcement has been blocked in the latter two states.  

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Comments

  1. This entire dastardly administration is Sick and Demented. God WILL NOT have mercy on those involved in “Killing” these innocent babies
    OR on those willing to get rid of them due to their ignorance and self-
    centeredness.

    1. I heard about and I’ve made such great money. It’s really user friendly and I’m just so happy that I found out about it. The potential with this is endless. 
      Here’s what I do… 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝟎𝟏.𝐓𝐤

    1. The FDA is not a friend of anybody except big pharma… you think they care about you? if you do i have a bridge to sell you

  2. Except you are supposed to take the “kill your baby pill” within 2 days of conception. US postal service can’t get a package across the street in 2 days.

  3. LISTEN UP…..GOD Says….ANYONE Who SHEDS INNOCENT BLOOD Shall SURELY Answer to ME. From SamuraiQueen. 😢😢😢

  4. LISTEN UP….GOD Says….ANYONE Who SHEDS INNOCENT BLOOD Shall SURELY Answer to ME. From SamuraiQueen. 😢😢😢

  5. What does Planned Parenthood think of this competitor? You’re cutting into their profits. Wait for Dem politicians to have a say in this, but quietly, as in legislation passed in the wee hours prohibiting use of the mails.

  6. That’s right. Let’s kill off the incipient American population. Guess who will NOT abort and will overpopulate and seize America? That’s right: The Caliphate of Amrikastan.

  7. Whether anyone likes it, many people do not have Christian beliefs. God’s first commandment clearly stated that there should be no other god…shall America ban Muslim, Buddhists, Hindus, and all other religions who do not worship Jehovah? Jesus CLEARLY said his kingdom was not of this world and he DID NOT force himself on others. Women who abort their children WILL NOT properly raise their child, thus furthering the moral destruction of the world-those children born to them WILL NOT have Godly values. Chemical abortion is far more Humane than most other forms and should NOT be hindered.

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