As courts weigh abortion pill rules, patients ask: What now? | Federal News Network

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : They can, however, travel across state lines to visit abortion providers in person or have telehealth appointments from within states where abortion is allowed.
45% : Various courts have recently ruled on mifepristone, which is used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S.
45% : Various courts have recently ruled on mifepristone, which is used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S.
41% : Six states that have not banned abortion -- Arizona, Indiana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota and South Carolina -- have requirements for at least one trip to the clinic, according to a February report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
38% : Courts have blocked bans throughout pregnancy in five other states, and one, Georgia, where abortion is forbidden once cardiac activity can be detected.
38% : If abortion is banned in a state, patients seeking one can't legally get the pills there through telehealth from any state or through the mail, said David Cohen, a Drexel University law professor.

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