Alice Miranda-Olstein

and they can't go to a doctor's office and get them even if they want to.

But it'll impact people in states like California, where there are these huge swaths of the state where it's very difficult to get to a clinic.

We have medical deserts all around the country.

We have shortages of providers, and telehealth has really broadened access, including in states where it was already legal and technically accessible on paper, but not in practice.

Yeah, so we actually got a sneak preview of what it would look like a couple weeks ago.

We had a few days between when the Fifth Circuit ruled for Louisiana and said, OK, we're going to restrict these pills, access to these pills nationwide.

And it took the Supreme Court a few days after that to step in and say, whoa, let's hit pause.

Let's go back to the way things were.

Let's restore telehealth access while we figure this out.

So in those few days, you saw these providers who prescribe and ship the pills nationwide.

to people living in states with bans make sort of a variety of decisions.

Some of these groups immediately just paused and stopped.

Other groups, including some doctors I talked to in Massachusetts, they have been preparing for this for years.

And so they had a plan already in place to pivot to only providing the second pill of the two-pill abortion regimen.

So to have an abortion

You can't just take mifepristone alone.

You have to take it in combination with another pill, misoprostol.

Now, you can take misoprostol alone, and that's actually pretty common in other countries.

So these groups, including the ones I talked to, immediately pivoted to only sending misoprostol to patients who were ordering the pills.

He has not, and neither has his Justice Department.