New York Times, Jan. 8, 2024
Note: Article picked up by many media outlets including The Seattle Times
Washington state’s program is the first, but other states are expected to try allowing pharmacists to prescribe the pills to counter growing efforts to curtail abortion access.
“Attacks on access to abortion care have created an urgent medical, public health and human rights crisis,” said Dr. Beth Rivin, who leads a Seattle-based global health nonprofit, Uplift International, and is the managing director of the new program, called the Pharmacist Abortion Access Project. “Even in Washington state, where abortion is legal, people still face barriers to abortion care, especially people who are struggling to make ends meet, live in rural areas and don’t have easy access to reproductive health care.”