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Pregnant people can face many barriers to accessing abortion at clinics, including distance, scheduling difficulties and long wait times for appointments, the need to take time off from work and\/or arrange for childcare, and harassment from clinic protesters.<\/p>\n

In an effort to combat some of these barriers, Gynuity Health Projects<\/a>, a non-profit reproductive health research organization, launched a project in 2016 called TelAbortion<\/a> to provide medical abortion using telemedicine. Medical abortion is the use of pills (called mifepristone and misoprostol) to end a pregnancy. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved mifepristone in 2000, and since then over 3.5 million people in the U.S. have had a medical abortion.<\/p>\n

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\nThe TelAbortion project<\/a> is a way for people to access medical abortion without going to an abortion clinic. An abortion provider conducts a video evaluation, reviews test results obtained at facilities in the patient\u2019s community (if tests are needed), and sends the abortion pills by mail. The project is a research study conducted under a protocol filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and approved by ethical review boards. The project is running in 13 states: CO, GA, HI, IA, IL, MD, ME, MN, MT, NM, NY, OR, and WA.<\/p>\n

As of April 2020, the project has enrolled more than 800 patients. 95% of participants completed their abortion without surgery, and satisfaction has been high among both patients and providers.<\/p>\n


\nHow does TelAbortion work?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Patients must be 70 days (10 weeks) pregnant or less when they take the first pill, and located in one of the project states listed above.<\/em><\/h4>\n

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For more information, visit www.telabortion.org<\/a> or contact telabortion@gynuity.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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