Shefali Luthra

Reproductive Health Reporter

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Conservatives are testing a new argument in their legal efforts to end telehealth abortion: People using mail-order medication are being coerced into ending their pregnancies.

Two wrongful death lawsuits out of Texas, both filed this past month in federal court, allege that women were forced to take abortion pills prescribed by out-of-state telehealth providers.

In one case, a woman alleges that abortion medications were secretly mixed into her hot chocolate and caused her to miscarry. (The local police department investigated those allegations and said they were unfounded.) In the other, a man claims his girlfriend was forced to take medications by her mother and estranged husband. Bot

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