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Seems reasonable to me. It's an approved medicine for home use, so you should be able to get it in any way you can get other such medicines.

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> But a new study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, which reviewed data from more than 84,000 abortions, found no increase in complications after Canada made mifepristone available by a doctor's prescription in 2017.

Canada made it available in 2017 with a prescription with no increase in complications. This policy update is long overdue considering the challenges of obtaining healthcare in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064598531/the-fda-could-perm...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2109779

It might seem simple, but Christians wield immense power in America and will not hesitate to attempt to make their beliefs legislation. Opposition to this isn't coming from a logical argument about legality, it's about hindering abortion access at all costs.

Uber broke the dictature of the local medalion laws, AirBnb broke the dictature of the local zoning and hotel laws,... I think there is a similarly or even larger business opportunity at technology based breaking of the dictature of those conservative/Christian/etc. forces at local and state levels.

In this case it'd be a much smaller subversion than AirBnb/Uber's as we've had fully legal medicine deliverable by mail for a long time.

Apples to oranges. Functionally no one builds their identity politics around being "pro-taxi-medallions" or "pro-zoning". In contrast, one of the major players in American politics made a concerted effort to fabricate a wedge issue (to mask their actual policies having become socially unpalatable), and spent decades pushing that narrative to cement it into identity politics.

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/abortion-evangeli...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-...

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