Where medication abortion is, is not legal

Fourteen states prohibit medication abortion — a federally approved two-drug regimen that accounts for more than 50% of U.S. abortions — and 15 other states restrict abortion pills, according to NBC News

The FDA approved medication abortion in 2000. In January 2023, the agency allowed eligible retail pharmacies to dispense mifepristone, the regimen's first drug that blocks progesterone, the hormone needed to support a pregnancy. CVS and Walgreens said they plan to begin filling mifepristone prescriptions in the next few weeks. 

The pharmacy chains will begin selling in a handful of states where abortion pills are legal, spokespeople told Becker's

Here are the states that ban medication abortion and the states that require a physician to prescribe the regimen rather than other clinicians, according to the Guttmacher Institute:

Banned: 

Alabama

Arkansas

Idaho

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Mississippi

Missouri

North Dakota

Oklahoma

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

West Virginia

Physician-prescribed:

Alaska

Arizona (Patients must have an in-person physician visit, and mailing the pills is banned)

Florida

Georgia (The state has a six-week gestational limit for abortions)

Iowa

Kansas

Michigan

Nebraska (Patients must have an in-person physician visit)

Nevada

North Carolina (Patients must have an in-person physician visit, and mailing the pills is banned)

Ohio

Pennsylvania

South Carolina (Patients must have an in-person physician visit)

Utah

Wisconsin (Patients must have an in-person physician visit)

Clinician-prescribed:

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Hawaii

Illinois

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Minnesota

Montana

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Oregon

Rhode Island

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wyoming

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