Iowa women seeking an abortion who live nowhere near a provider have been getting medication abortions through a pioneering telemedicine program. That’s to the chagrin of Operation Rescue, which just lost a major battle. Alas, the war’s not over.
Since 2008, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has pioneered a program where a Des Moines doctor can consult with a patient at a remote clinic and then push a button that opens a drawer with the first dosage of the medication. The second dosage is taken at home. Two thousand women have been served this way at 16 clinics. (Telemedicine is often used for remote areas in areas outside of abortion care.) After two weeks, the patient returns to the clinic to be examined by a nurse for complications.
Operation Rescue claimed this violated a law that abortions had to be performed by a doctor, and was referred to the Iowa Board of Medicine, which found no violation.
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