Selena Simmons-Duffin

It's been used by something like 7 million patients since it was approved in 2000.

And doctors say the in-person requirement is not medically necessary, but now that requirement is back.

There is a medication abortion protocol that uses only mesoprostol, which is another medication.

So doctors could pivot to providing that through telemedicine instead.

It's just really hard to know how this is going to go.

It's just happened so quickly.

You know, one significant thing is that telemedicine has become key for access in remote and rural areas all over the country.

I talked to a woman named Julia.

We're not using her last name because she fears professional repercussions for sharing her story.

In 2024, she lived in a remote part of California in the Sierra Nevadas.

I was pregnant, was not planned.

Did not want to keep it.

It was winter and she was in an area where roads were often unsafe.

There were possible landslides.

There were no OBGYNs nearby.

So she used Planned Parenthood remotely and received the medication in the mail along with instructions.

Oh, yes.

Democrats have come out swinging after the appeals court decision.

Washington Senator Patty Murray called it, quote, infuriating and infantilizing.

Many Republicans celebrated this decision.