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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

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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.

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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
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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 4:00 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.



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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.

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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

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