Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research

Teens are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research

Abortion pills have been shown to be safe and effective. MementoJpeg/Moment via Getty ImagesTeens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people age 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion at much higher rates than older adults. Those are the key findings of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal JAMA Health Forum. We examined requests for medication made to an online telemedicin…