Dear John,
Safe and effective at-home early medical abortion services are under threat. We need your help.Â
At the start of the pandemic, Ministers granted temporary permission for early medical abortion treatment to be received by post following a telemedical consultation. They are currently considering revoking this service - despite the fact that it has led to shorter waiting times, enabled women to end pregnancies at the earliest possible gestation, and that BPAS clients have told us that they want at-home abortion care to be available for women in the future.Â
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Today, we have published a letter to Ministers from a coalition of charities and medical bodies including BPAS, the Royal College of Midwives, Stonewall, and Women's Aid calling for the temporary measures to allow for telemedical abortions to be made permanent.
With clinical bodies and evidence showing that early medical abortion care is safe effective, there is no clinical argument for reinstating restrictions. All that revoking telemedical abortion care would do is service to make access to abortion more difficult and distressing – for entirely political purposes.
Please take ONE MINUTE to email your MP and ask that they support access this vital service, and SHARE the campaign with your friends and family.Â
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Best wishes,
The BPAS team
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