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Rebecca Gomperts, Abortion Pill Provider

Her telehealth service saw an almost 120% increase in online orders from overseas in the two months after the June ruling that ended Roe v. Wade, according to a November study in the medical journal JAMA.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

December 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM UTC

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This article is part of the December 26, 2022 issue of businessweek.

Rebecca Gomperts is a Netherlands-raised and -trained physician who’s worked as an abortion doctor and activist for more than 20 years. She started Aid Access in 2018, after states began passing increasingly rigid abortion restrictions and the Supreme Court tilted to the right.

The service is geared toward Americans living in places where it’s hard to get an abortion. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion pill (aka mifepristone) to end first-trimester pregnancies two decades ago. But it’s run up against onerous federal and state regulations, making it about as hard to get as a surgical procedure. Even before the end of Roe, many states didn’t allow the pill to be prescribed via telemedicine. Until recently, the federal government wouldn’t let pharmacies mail it.