A little more than a month after the Supreme Court’s shock ruling overturned the constitutional right to abortion, allowing republican-led states to limit if not completely prohibit termination of pregnancy, in the United States there is a boom of sites that see abortion pills. Even in the eight states that have banned abortion and the six that have restricted it, it is still possible to continue receiving abortion pills by post from online pharmacies.
Even before the announcement of the already widely anticipated decision of the Conservative-majority Court, groups such as the Plan C website began to study ways in which they could start a safe system for organizing, through a telemedicine servicesending the pills – approved by the FDA and which can be taken up to the tenth week of gestation – to women living in states where their right to choose has been denied.
The initiative is not without legal risks for Elisa Wells and the other activists of the group may in fact incur criminal investigations by the local judiciary, be hit by civil lawsuits and even lose their medical license for having sent abortion pills in a state where the procedure is prohibited. This is why it was designed a stratagem, that of postal forwardingFor example, if a woman calls the telemedicine service from Texas, where abortion is prohibited, she can have the pill sent to Colorado, where it is legal, and from there the mail forwarding services get it to its destination.
Furthermore, whoever conducts the telephone consultation is very careful not to ask many questions about the patient’s actual residence, the important thing is that he is able to provide an address in a state where abortion is legal.
“It’s don’t ask, don’t tell“, Wells told the ‘Washington Post’ in recent days – citing the famous mantra, don’t ask, don’t tell, with which the Pentagon related to gay military in the 90s – explaining how on the Plan C website it is possible to verify all the types of safe abortion pills, that is, authorized by the FDA. Only in the days immediately following the sentence of the Supreme Court, the site had received over half a million visits.
In fact, experts point out that, like this boom in requests for abortion pills online, there is the risk of running into sites that do not offer safe medicines or that are real scams. “Scammers go where the demand is, it creates opportunities for criminals and puts patients’ safety at risk,” Libby Baney, of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, another group for the online marketing of abortion pills, explains to Politico. .
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