USA – She’s Remaking the Abortion Landscape One Pill at a Time

Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”

Nina Martin
July 31, 2026

For most of the three years it’s existed, the second-largest telehealth abortion provider in the country has operated out of an office not much bigger than a lot of bathrooms. “That is what half a million dollars of mifepristone looks like,” Dr. Angel Foster tells the Tufts University medical students crowded around the conference table, nodding toward the cubicle across the hall. The bins lining the plate-glass windows are filled with Priority Mail packages containing abortion pills, ready to be labeled and shipped. Shelves hold supplies of mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs in the gold-standard abortion-pill regimen, all waiting to be packed.

Foster is a leader in the movement that has revolutionized telemedicine abortion care in the post–Roe v. Wade era. The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, or The MAP, which she co-founded in 2023, is the culmination of a 30-year career on the cutting edge of global reproductive care. Figuring out how to get abortion pills to people who need them, while preparing for a future in which those pills may no longer be legal, is a core part of Foster’s—and The MAP’s—mission.

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/shes-remaking-the-abortion-landscape-one-pill-at-a-time/


USA – ‘Chaos’ followed ruling on abortion drug access, and providers say more uncertainty lies ahead

By Deidre McPhillips
May 6, 2026

Like on many other days, the last thing Leah Coplon did before she left work Friday was to check a litigation tracker. Coplon, the director of clinical operations for Abortion on Demand, was watching for any updates about legal action on abortion pills. Around 5 p.m., it was quiet.

Coplon made a short commute to downtown Portland, Maine, to attend a May Day rally. She had just arrived when she got the news.

Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/abortion-providers-mifepristone-chaos-court


Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies

By  MARK SHERMAN and GEOFF MULVIHILL
May 4, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the nation.

The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
Those practices had been permitted for several years until a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions last week.

Continued: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-0533e83d67148fdfec53b1d0d30c1e8a


USA – Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says

A new report finds that women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press
October 22, 2024

Women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report released Tuesday.

Women did so by traveling out of state or by having prescription abortion pills mailed to them, according to the #WeCount report from the Society of Family Planning, which advocates for abortion access. They increasingly used telehealth, the report found, as medical providers in states with laws intended to protection them from prosecution in other states used online appointments to prescribe abortion pills.

Continued: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/women-states-bans-abortions-similar-rates-roe-report-115020954