U.S. states unsure how to halt online sales of abortion pills amid clinic crackdown

FEATURE - U.S. states unsure how to halt online sales of abortion pills amid clinic crackdown

Gabriella Borter, Reuters
June 27, 2019

NEW YORK — American women faced with new restrictions on abortions passed by a dozen U.S. states this year are turning to abortion pills from foreign online suppliers, and the states say there is little they can do to stop it.

In the year before many of these new restrictions passed Republican-controlled state legislatures, over 20,000 U.S. women sought the pills online from providers willing to defy U.S. federal rules over sale of the drugs that induce miscarriage.

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