NYC Becomes First US City to Offer ‘on Demand’ Abortion Kits

New York Metropolis’s well being system has change into the primary within the nation to supply “on demand” digital “abortion entry,” town introduced on Monday.

NYC Well being + Hospitals and New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams launched the abortion program by means of “Digital ExpressCare,” in keeping with a information launch from town’s well being system.

“Starting this week, sufferers in New York Metropolis in search of abortion care will be capable of schedule a Digital ExpressCare appointment to talk with a New York state-licensed well being care skilled by video or cellphone, on-demand, for an evaluation and counseling,” the discharge says. “If clinically acceptable and prescribed, sufferers will be capable of obtain a medicine abortion equipment at their New York Metropolis tackle inside a number of days.”

Ladies in New York Metropolis who’re in search of to abort their unborn infants can entry the service seven days per week, however they’ve to have the ability to attest that they are going to be within the metropolis after they take the abortion medication. If the ladies ask to obtain abortion medication by mail, the tackle “should be in New York Metropolis,” the discharge stated, and the abortion medication can be found to “clinically eligible sufferers who’re as much as 10 weeks into their being pregnant.”

Adams attributed the brand new abortion promotion to town’s need to struggle again towards the Supreme Courtroom’s June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.

“In New York Metropolis, we’ll by no means cease combating for a lady’s proper to decide on the care that’s proper for them, and we’ll by no means cease working to make abortion care extra accessible to all New Yorkers,” he stated in an announcement. “Telehealth abortion care permits the folks in our lives to make the alternatives they want privately and safely, in order that they will resolve what’s greatest for them and their futures. That is about defending the flexibility for girls to manage their very own our bodies, their selections, and their freedoms.”

This isn’t the one step Adams has taken to advertise abortion post-Roe. In November 2022, he introduced the opening of an “abortion entry hub” that “confidentially” connects callers with abortionists within the metropolis. As of June, that hub had claimed to have linked virtually 2,000 callers with abortionists.

He additionally signed laws that makes abortion medication free on the metropolis’s sexual well being clinics, his workplace stated in June, making New York Metropolis’s Well being Division the primary within the nation to supply free abortion medication on this method.

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