geoffrey modest medical blogs

  As many areas in the United States are making mifepristone illegal, and the US Supreme Court will be weighing in on the potential of a federal ban soon, it is noteworthy that several studies have found that single agent misoprostol is quite effective, similar to its standard combination with mifepristone. A recent study documented the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion in the US using misoprostol alone through an online telemedicine service (see  abortion misoprostol single agent telemed PerspecSexReproducHealth2023  in dropbox, or    doi.org/10.1363/psrh.12219 ) .   Thanks to Paul Susman for sending me a great article on this:  https://societyfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SFP_ScienceSays_misoprostol.pdf   Details :  -- 1016 women received prescriptions for misoprostol from Aid Access in the month of June 2020      -- Aid Access is a non-profit based in Vienna, Austria, but is the only telemedicine organiza...

This blog will not shock you: when Texas closed abortion facilities, decreasing access and making women travel further distances to get an abortion, there was a substantial decrease in the number of abortions done with a small increase in out-of-state abortions (see  abortion  dec  with  dec  access jama2017  in  dropbox , ordoi:10.1001/jama.2016.17026). Details: -- in 2013 Texas enacted a restrictive abortion law which was partially reversed by the Supreme Court in 2016 as being unconstitutional -- after passage of the law, the number of abortion facilities declined, with the following changes:     --2012 (prior to the law): 66,098 abortions done in Texas, 97 done out-of-state. 41 abortion facilities in 17 counties in Texas     --2014: 53,882 abortions done in Texas, 254 done out-of-state. 21 abortion facilities in 6 counties in Texas -- the median dist...