FDA Abortion-by-Mail Policy Puts Women in Danger, Report Finds

FDA Abortion-by-Mail Policy Puts Women in Danger, Report Finds

Rosalie Markezich, a Louisiana woman coerced into taking abortion drugs that her then-boyfriend obtained via mail from a doctor in California. After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stopped requiring in-person visits for chemical abortions, abortion drugs became more dangerous for women, per an Ethics and Public Policy Center report.

Abortion pill complications increased after Biden ended in-person requirement: report

New research estimates that mail-order abortion pills have a nearly 24% rate of serious adverse events – more than twice as high as for in-person dispensing and 47 times the rate reported on the drug label.