California abortion pill suppliers ready with workaround in case of Supreme Court ban
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The last time the Supreme Court threatened to end access to the country’s most popular abortion method, California’s network of online providers and their pharmaceutical suppliers scrambled to respond.Now, with the fate of the cocktail used in roughly two-thirds of U.S.
terminations once again in the balance, they’re not even breaking a sweat.Dr.
Michele Gomez, co-founder of the MYA Network, a consortium of virtual reproductive healthcare providers, said the supply chain is “ready to switch in a day” to an alternative drug combination.“It’s not going away and it’s not going to slow down,” Gomez said.
On May 1, the 5th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to block the drug mifepristone from being prescribed virtually and shipped through the mail, making such deliveries illegal across the country.
On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed that decision, allowing prescriptions to resume until the court issues an emergency ruling next week.Mifepristone is the first half of a two-drug protocol for medication abortion, which made up 63% of all legal abortions in the U.S.
in 2023.California West Hollywood is among the cities moving to formally recognize and protect multi-partner relationships, an effort that backers say addresses housing and healthcare discrimination.
Lawyers who navigate the system for divorces, custody disputes and family court battles say it will be complicated.Between a quarter and a third of those abortions are now prescribed by healthcare providers over the internet and delivered by mail — a path Louisiana and other ban states are fighting to bar.“Abortion access has gone up with all the telehealth providers,” Gomez said.
“We uncovered an unmet need.” But the cocktail’s second ingredient, misoprostol, can be used to produce abortion on its own — a method that’s often more painful and slightly less effective.It would be easy for s...