Summary
This report details how medical and financial recordkeeping laws endanger abortion providers and funders, even in states with strong abortion shield laws. S.T.O.P. anonymously interviewed numerous telemedicine providers operating under state shield laws that protect abortion providers (“shield clinics”), abortion funders in states that effectively ban abortion, a representative of an abortion information text line, and experts who advise these service providers. The report comes shortly after Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a patient near Dallas, the first attempt to enforce a state abortion ban beyond state lines. The report calls on states protecting reproductive rights to harden abortion access by bolstering their shield laws and setting aside dedicated funding for telemedicine abortion services.
