More women sought medication abortion services online after Texas banned abortions amid COVID-19

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Published:
July 21, 2020

During a ban on abortion services in Texas earlier this year, more women sought out a telemedicine abortion service called Aid Access, according to a new study from UT Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs. The study found a 27 percent increase in the rate of requests for medication abortion by mail in the U.S. between March 20 and April 11 compared to the beginning of the year.

Aid Access is the only telemedicine abortion service in the U.S. It helps patients who qualify access medication abortions, which are administered through pills.

Dr. Abigail Aiken, the author of the study, said she saw the biggest increase in requests in Texas. She said the state, which had the most severe restrictions on abortion at the time, saw a 94 percent increase in requests in that period.

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