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Today at Ms. | January 5, 2022 |
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Online Abortion Provider Robin Tucker: “I’m Trying To Remove Barriers. … It Feels Great To Be Able To Help People This Way” |
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | A wide range of telemedicine abortion providers are springing up across the country in response to the recent removal of longstanding FDA restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone.
Meet one provider: Robin Tucker, a nurse practitioner of women’s health and a certified nurse midwife who offers first-trimester medication abortion by phone call, video visit or online intake forms to patients in Virginia, Maryland and Maine.
“People say, this seems too good to be true, this just seems so easy, there has to be a catch.”
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BY SHEFALI LUTHRA | Despite a December ruling allowing legal challenges to proceed, the six-week abortion law out of Texas remains in effect. Where do things currently stand? And where will they go next?
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Abortion Care Is Healthcare and Must Be Included in Medical Curricula |
BY AUDREY MANNUEL, MAYA PATEL and CAROLINE BESHERS | By failing to educate medical students on abortion, the medical institution effectively contributes to the continued politicization, restriction and stigmatization of abortion care in the U.S.
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