Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of a Europe-based telehealth group, is striving to make abortion pills available to women in the U.S.
Seeking to neuter Obamacare, right-wing state legislatures passed laws protecting the right to choose healthcare. Now they’re being used to guarantee the right to abortion., filed in November on behalf of several antiabortion groups and medical professionals, alleges that mifepristone is not safe for use in medication abortion. The federal judge hearing the case worked for a Christian conservative nonprofit group and had criticized Roe vs.
“She is bold and brave and exactly what the U.S. needs in this public health crisis,” Upadhyay wrote in an email. “I often wonder why the U.S. doesn’t have our own Rebecca Gompertses yet … who publicly and proudly provide this essential care.” Aid Access operates around the clock with a far-flung staff of 30 people fielding about 1,000 emails and online requests a day from around the world, Gomperts said. The group’s model is straightforward: In the U.S., in states where abortion is legal, patients are matched with doctors who, following a consultation, write a prescription for abortion pills, which participating pharmacies ship to the person’s home.
U.S. providers working with the group, though, are apprehensive not only about the pending Texas ruling on abortion pills, butLinda Prine, a 71-year-old physician in New York state, has retired from her family-medicine practice but continues to work with Aid Access because she believes that older practitioners, who have the bulk of their careers behind them, are more able to risk their medical licenses than younger ones.
“People with money, the wives and daughters of judges and politicians, they can obtain abortions no matter what,” she said. “It’s fundamentally racist, and a matter of social injustice. That’s the bottom line.”
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