Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains (CHPPGP), an affiliate of Planned Parenthood, has announced that it is offering telemedicine abortion services in the state of Kansas after a court gave green light to the practice.
A 2011 law had previously required doctors in Kansas to be in the same room as patients while prescribing abortion medications. In November, a judge blocked the law, thereby enabling the prescription of abortion pills via telemedicine. On its website, CHPPGP states that the service began on Dec. 19, with patients receiving abortion pills under the supervision of a qualified physician through a Telehealth appointment at the facility’s health centers in Kansas.
