Telehealth requests for medication abortion doubled in more than a third of states in the months after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, according to new work from University of Washington researchers.

The study was published in medical journal JAMA Network last month, and builds on research that has documented rising demand nationwide for abortion medication through telehealth services. This care, shown to be as safe and effective as in-person options, has become especially popular among people who live farthest from an abortion-care clinic, according to the report.

“We’re not the only people to document the increase in telehealth use — but what we’ve added is that distance does really still matter,” said Anna Fiastro, the paper’s senior author and a researcher at the UW Scho

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