Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, allowed three states to go forward with a lawsuit that seeks to change how mifepristone is used.
Immediate action is vital to safeguard emergency abortion care amid expected federal policy shifts, the governor said.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is working to strengthen the state's abortion laws before he's replaced by Governor-elect Bob Ferguson.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson promised to tackle the state's housing affordability problems and protect abortion rights in his first speech to the Legislature on Wednesday, delivering his address minutes after being sworn into office.
A Washington state-based nonprofit has launched a program training pharmacists to prescribe abortion medications via telehealth, a model that organizers hope other states will adopt to expand abortion access.
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“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.
In 1967 – six years before Roe v. Wade was decided and before any other state changed its laws – Colorado legislators loosened abortion restrictions. The new law allowed for abortions in the case of rape, incest, fetal anomalies and when the life or health of the mother is at risk.
(Photo: Wichayada Suwanachun/Getty Images) A Washington state-based nonprofit has launched a program training pharmacists to prescribe abortion medications via telehealth, a model that organizers ...
Ten pharmacists were recruited and trained to prescribe mifepristone and misoprostol, the standard U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medication abortion regimen, to patients in Washington ...