A Washington state-based nonprofit has launched a program training pharmacists to prescribe abortion medications via telehealth, a model that organizers hope other states will adopt to expand abortion access.

Washington State’s program is the first, but other states are expected to try allowing pharmacists to prescribe the pills to counter growing efforts to curtail abortion access.

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Chemical abortions currently account for about half of the abortions that are done in the United States every year.

Karen Middleton of Cobalt Advocates discusses a new program that has pharmacists prescribe abortion pills.Jan. 9, 2025

Washington pharmacists have been legally considered as healthcare providers who can prescribe medication since 1979.