ABORTION ACCESS: "How Video Technology has Improved Abortion Access for Women in Rural Iowa," Tara Culp-Ressler, Center for American Progress' "ThinkProgress": A recent study that examined the impact of an Iowa-based telemedicine program found that "[p]roviding women in rural areas with access to abortion services through new technology -- such as video conferences with doctors who can prescribe abortion pills, and then distribute them using a remote control -- can help give those women the medical services they need without actually increasing abortion rates," Culp-Ressler writes. Iowa Planned Parenthood officials noted that the study "underlines the fact that telemedicine allows women to make the medical decisions that are best for them, including about where and when they want to end a pregnancy," Culp-Ressler writes (Culp-Ressler, "ThinkProgress," Center for American Progress, 11/16).
