The Sunday Read: ‘Risking Everything to Offer Abortion Access Across State Lines’

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🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In states where abortion is severely limited or illegal, clinicians face imminent prosecution if they continue to provide abortions. What is much less clear is what happens if providers in blue states offer telemedicine abortions to women in states where that’s against the law. These clinicians, too, could be arrested or sued or lose their medical licenses. To protect themselves, they may have to give up traveling to certain parts of the country — and it’s still no guarantee. In the face of so much uncertainty and an invigorated anti-abortion movement, large organizations and most clinicians are loath to gamble. But some providers think that the end of Roe v. Wade calls for doctors to take bold action.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Emily Bazelon.
0:02.6	I'm a staff writer at the New York Times magazine,
0:05.0	and I write about legal issues.
0:07.0	I'm especially interested right now in reproductive rights.
0:11.6	After Dobs versus Jackson,
0:14.2	the Supreme Court decision over turning Roe versus Wade,
0:17.5	the demand for abortion pills skyrocketed.
0:21.2	Telemedicine became more popular during the pandemic,
0:25.1	and there's mounting evidence that it's just
0:27.4	safe to get abortion pills via phone or video as it is to go to a clinic.
0:32.3	Still, 19 states had bans on telehealth abortions.
0:37.2	But one service was openly mailing abortion pills,
0:40.5	even to women in the states with bans on the medication.
0:44.1	And that group is called aid access.
0:47.5	The Sunday read that you're about to hear
0:49.7	is about this pragmatic effort to be the resistance
0:53.2	to the end of Roe versus Wade.
0:55.6	It's about a coalition of doctors and midwives
0:58.4	who are determined to provide access to abortion
1:01.3	in states where it's now banned or severely restricted,
1:04.9	and their efforts to get as much legal protection
1:07.5	as possible from the blue states where they live.
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