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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the fetus-deletus dept.

How technology could preserve abortion rights

Abortion rights advocates are exploring how technology might preserve or even expand women's access to abortion if the Supreme Court scales back Roe v. Wade. A nonprofit group is testing whether it's safe to let women take abortion pills in their own homes after taking screening tests and consulting with a doctor on their phones or computers. Because the study is part of an FDA clinical trial, the group isn't bound by current rules requiring the drugs be administered in a doctor's office or clinic.

The group, called Gynuity Health Projects, is carrying out the trial in five states that already allow virtual doctors to oversee administration of the abortion pill, and may expand to others. If the trial proves that allowing women to take the pill at home is safe — under a virtual doctor's supervision — the group hopes the FDA could eventually loosen restrictions to allow women to take pills mailed to them after the consult. If FDA took that step, it could even help women in states with restrictive abortion laws get around them, potentially blurring the strict boundaries between abortion laws in different states if — as is likely — the Senate confirms a high court justice who is open to further limits on Roe.

[...] Right now, even in states that allow a licensed provider to administer the abortion pill by video hookup, the provider must watch, in person or by video, as a woman takes the first medication in a clinic or other health care setting. The drugs abort the fetus without surgery but are safe and effective only in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. If the group's study shows it's safe for women to administer the drug themselves after an online consultation with a health care provider, it will petition the FDA to lift the requirement.

Or: Get a drug printer, download drug plans, print desired drug.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:06PM (#715794) Journal

    I've been anticipating the development of the artificial womb [soylentnews.org] for a long time. However, its development alone probably won't lead to full criminalization of abortion. If the woman herself is pregnant, she's still carrying a parasitical being, and removing it from her will still require surgery, which means potential risk of death from superbug infection or other complications. Instead, I think we'll see couples switching to something like IVF or lab-combined embryos grown in artificial wombs from the start. But some of these couples will divorce before the baby is even born. Or one or both of them won't want the child, but because it's in an artificial womb, there is no standing to abort. This is when you will see some interesting legal battles. Oh, and without the rush of hormones that comes with pregnancy + breastfeeding, etc., will the "mother" have the same emotional attachment to a lab-grown child?

    Very interesting developments.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @06:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @06:43PM (#715846)

    Well, I'm sure that 715547 [soylentnews.org] will fund the procedure and take custody of the child once it's viable outside of the artificial womb.

    Oh, and without the rush of hormones that comes with pregnancy + breastfeeding, etc., will the "mother" have the same emotional attachment to a lab-grown child?

    We should be able to find satisfactory information on present-day women who adopt infants, including what women who breastfeed adopted infants in the present day have to report.