Abortion is legal in Alaska, but doctors and advocates say it is not equitable or accessible because of the state’s geography and large rural population. And some say a lawsuit joined by the state’s attorney general could limit access even further.
joined by the state’s attorney general could limit access even further by asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reverse its approval of mifepristone, a drug that ends pregnancies. Doctors say it’s the most effective abortion pill on the market.
A statement from Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor says he joined the state in the lawsuit because the federal government allows the pill to be prescribed by mail, which means even people in states where abortion is illegal can get it. That’s not the way most people in Alaska get it — Planned Parenthood, the state’s main prescriber only does so in person — but the lawsuit would still make the pill unavailable to Alaskans.
“Mifepristone is safe. It’s effective. It has been used by more than 4 million people since the FDA approved it more than 20 years ago,” said Rose O’Hara Jolley, the director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates in Alaska. “So this case is baseless. There is no reason from a science standpoint, from a health care standpoint. It is simply about restricting access to abortion, even in states where abortion is legal.
Geography is one of the barriers to reproductive care in Alaska. Even people in remote areas who choose to end their pregnancies with the pill usually travel because Planned Parenthood doesn’t prescribe it by mail, even though
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Rural Alaskans will be disproportionately affected by abortion pill lawsuit, say doctors and advocatesGeography is one of the barriers to reproductive care in Alaska. Even people in remote areas who choose to end their pregnancies with the pill usually travel because Planned Parenthood doesn’t prescribe it by mail, even though that is legal.
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