Becker's Healthcare March 4, 2024
Fourteen states prohibit medication abortion — a federally approved two-drug regimen that accounts for more than 50% of U.S. abortions — and 15 other states restrict abortion pills, according to NBC News.
The FDA approved medication abortion in 2000. In January 2023, the agency allowed eligible retail pharmacies to dispense mifepristone, the regimen’s first drug that blocks progesterone, the hormone needed to support a pregnancy. CVS and Walgreens said they plan to begin filling mifepristone prescriptions in the next few weeks.
The pharmacy chains will begin selling in a handful of states where abortion pills are legal, spokespeople told Becker’s.
Here are the states that ban medication abortion and the states that require a physician to prescribe...
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