"On Wednesday, California's State Assembly passed AB 260 (a swift development, considering the Senate approved it the day before), a bill that would allow the state's healthcare workers to redact details from abortion pill prescriptions, including the prescriber's name, the patient's name, and the pharmacist's name. It now sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, who is sure to sign it into law."
"With shield laws, states like California-just one of states where abortion is still allowed-can of circumvent abortion bans in other states, protecting healthcare providers from being fined, prosecuted, or de-licensed for treating patients across state lines. As such, shield laws have been under fire by the country's creepy collection anti-abortion attorneys general. In July, 15 GOP AGs signed an open letter, pleading with Congress to take down the entire system."
"An estimated 1.14 million abortions were performed in the U.S. in 2024, about a quarter of which were done through telehealth. Shield laws have Almost everything comes out of California, and mainly from Honeybee." The helped expand access to the procedure, and roughly 12,000 abortions per month take place thanks to their protections. And C alifornia is an essential supplier of the medication. "We're really the main hub for mailing abortion pills," Cofounder of Honeybee Health Jess"
California's State Assembly passed AB 260 permitting healthcare workers to redact prescribers', patients', and pharmacists' names from abortion pill prescriptions; the bill awaits Governor Gavin Newsom's signature. The measure appears amid multiple lawsuits targeting doctors who mail abortion pills to patients in states with near-total bans and legal challenges to state shield laws. Shield laws enable states where abortion remains legal to protect providers treating patients across state lines from fines, prosecution, or de-licensure, and those laws face coordinated opposition from several GOP attorneys general. Telehealth accounted for about a quarter of roughly 1.14 million U.S. abortions in 2024, with California a major mailing hub for medication.
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