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Teens are Driving the Demand for Online Abortion Pills Via Telehealth – New Research
Policy field
Originally published with Laura D. Lindberg in The Conversation on March 25, 2026.
Teens in the U.S. are obtaining medication abortion pills through telehealth, and young people age 18 to 24 are ordering medication abortion at much higher rates than older adults.
Those are the key findings of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal JAMA Health Forum.