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Skip to contentSkip to site index Search & Section Navigation Section Navigation SEARCH Health SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEKLog in Thursday, February 22, 2024 Today’s Paper SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEK U.S. Abortion Landscape * Abortion Pill Case * Tracking Abortion Laws * Effects of Bans on Births * Legal Abortions After Dobbs * The Dismantling of Roe v. Wade Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT ABORTION SHIELD LAWS: A NEW WAR BETWEEN THE STATES Doctors in six states where abortion is legal are using new laws to send abortion pills to tens of thousands of women in states where it is illegal. * Share full article * * * 385 * Read in app In a tiny unmarked office near Boston, packages of abortion pills are prepared to be sent to patients in states where abortion is illegal.Credit...Sophie Park for The New York Times By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck spent time with abortion providers sending pills to states that outlaw abortion and talked with patients receiving those pills. Feb. 22, 2024Updated 2:09 p.m. ET Behind an unmarked door in a boxy brick building outside Boston, a quiet rebellion is taking place. Here, in a 7-by-12-foot room, abortion is being made available to thousands of women in states where it is illegal. The patients do not have to travel here to terminate their pregnancies, and they do not have to wait weeks to receive abortion medication from overseas. Instead, they are obtaining abortion pills prescribed by licensed Massachusetts providers, packaged in the little room and mailed from a nearby post office, arriving days later in Texas, Missouri and other states where abortion is largely outlawed. This service and others like it are operating under novel laws enacted in a half-dozen states — Massachusetts, Washington, Colorado, Vermont, New York and California — that have sought to preserve abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in June 2022. The laws have been in use only since the summer and have not been tested in the courts, but they are already providing abortion access to tens of thousands of women in states with bans, especially low-income patients and others who cannot travel. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Called telemedicine abortion shield laws, they promise to protect doctors, nurse practitioners and midwives licensed in those six states who prescribe and send abortion pills to patients in the nearly two dozen states that ban or sharply restrict abortion. The laws stipulate that officials and agencies of their states will not cooperate with another state’s efforts to investigate or penalize such providers — a stark departure from typical interstate practices of extraditing, honoring subpoenas and sharing information, legal experts on both sides of the abortion issue say. Many expect them to ultimately be challenged in federal court. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. Pam Belluck is a health and science reporter, covering a range of subjects, including reproductive health, long Covid, brain science, neurological disorders, mental health and genetics. More about Pam Belluck Read 385 Comments * Share full article * * * 385 * Read in app Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT COMMENTS 385 Abortion Shield Laws: A New War Between the StatesSkip to Comments Share your thoughts. The Times needs your voice. We welcome your on-topic commentary, criticism and expertise. Comments are moderated for civility. SITE INDEX SITE INFORMATION NAVIGATION * © 2024 The New York Times Company * NYTCo * Contact Us * Accessibility * Work with us * Advertise * T Brand Studio * Your Ad Choices * Privacy Policy * Terms of Service * Terms of Sale * Site Map * Canada * International * Help * Subscriptions Enjoy unlimited access to all of The Times. See subscription options