The Camelback Family Planning clinic, in the US city of Phoenix, has created a solution to circumvent the ban on abortion in the state of Arizona: starting this Monday, patients can have an ultrasound at this clinic, then get the prescription from the medicine that allows you to voluntarily interrupt pregnancy in a teleconsultation, remotely, with a doctor in California. This is then sent to a city in California, which borders Arizona, where the patient must pick it up at the post office.
All of this, says The Washington Post, could be free: The Arizona Abortion Fund covers drug costs for women who can’t afford them.
The new Camelback Family Planning scheme is possible since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permanently removed the rules that required this drug to be given to women only after face-to-face consultations, allowing now, through teleconsultations , have access to pills
However, Arizona law does not authorize this practice and therefore travel to border cities in neighboring states is required.
For this reason, the clinics in this city have established agreements with clinics in other states —in this case, New Mexico and California— so that women can receive medications to terminate pregnancy or surgery, in the case of pregnancies with a time greater than 12 months. years. weeks.
Arizona organizations have made various efforts to circumvent the consequences of the anti-abortion laws established there.
Planned Parenthood Arizona, for example, bears the costs of terminating the pregnancy if the patient does not have the financial capacity to provide all the necessary care: help with additional expenses (travel, lodging) and other necessities.
Before this process begins, a team talks with pregnant patients, informing them of their options, which include keeping the baby, giving it up for adoption, or explaining how they can access voluntary termination of pregnancy in the state that prohibits it.
On September 24, an Arizona court ruled in favor of the government, prohibiting abortion in almost all cases (only allowed when the woman’s life was in danger). This was just one of the states to reinstate or pass anti-abortion laws, after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade who, in the 1970s, gave women the right to have an abortion.
Source: Observadora
