This is the Guardian. It may sometimes feel a bit odd to send your doctor or nurse a picture of your weird rash dodgy toe, leaky spot or saw eye.

But since the start of the pandemic, Telemedicine has become a useful way to provide necessary health care whilst avoiding COVID-19 transmission, even for really intimate problems.

This includes abortions. In March 2020 as the UK shut down,

emergency legal orders were issued to allow early stage at home medical abortions in Great Britain.

I understand that people feel strongly about this, but this honestly is a matter for human dignity,

for women's dignity.

And I urge honourable members to think very carefully when they put this forward today

because it really will make a huge difference to a huge number of women.

Last week MPs in Parliament voted to permanently allow them in England at least.

The eyes to the right were 275, the nose to the left 183 so the eyes have it

Wales will be keeping it too

the result was warmly welcomed by the faculty of sexual and reproductive health care and the Royal

College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

And it got some people thinking. As the debate about abortion continues, alternative ways of getting one are also becoming a part of the conversation.

Could access to early stage medical abortions get even easier with so-called

plan C pills one day available in shops and pharmacies.

From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly. I work and live in Texas now and sort of watching us go in the direction back to where I was

before I moved here is very it's pretty surreal yes Yes. That's for sure.

Dr. Abigail Aiken is an associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin,

who researches unintended pregnancies and self-managed abortions.

The first thing I asked Abigail was how early stage medical abortions,

pills taken to terminate a pregnancy typically before 10 weeks work.

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