Another report, published last week by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that medication abortions now account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions provided by the country’s formal health system, which includes clinics and telemedicine abortion services.
The JAMA study evaluated data from overseas telemedicine organizations, online vendors and networks of community volunteers that generally obtain pills from outside the United States.
Before Roe was overturned, these avenues provided abortion pills to about 1,400 women per month, but in the six months afterward, the average jumped to 5,900 per month, the study reported.
The co-authors were a statistics professor at the university; the founder of Aid Access, a Europe-based organization that helped pioneer telemedicine abortion in the United States; and a leader of Plan C, an organization that provides consumers with information about medication abortion.
Vendors in the study were vetted by Plan C and found to be providing genuine abortion pills, Dr. Aiken said.
Persons:
Roe, ”, Abigail Aiken, Aiken
Organizations:
JAMA, Guttmacher Institute, University of Texas
Locations:
United States, U.S, Austin, Europe, India