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This book examines early medical abortion provided by telemedicine, alongside the access barriers created by laws in the US and UK. It critically appraises a series of developments in this rapidly evolving subject providing an up to date and well-informed analysis.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Understanding Early Medical Abortion
- 2: Abortion exceptionalism and the law in the United Kingdom and United States
- 3: Socio-legal barriers to early medical abortion
- 4: Piecemeal progression and home use of misoprostol in the United Kingdom
- 5: Early medical abortion and the telemedical imperative
- 6: A telemedical continuum for early medical abortion 183
- 7: The necessity of telemedical abortion during a pandemic
- 8: The legal and policy response to abortion care in the United Kingdom during COVID-19
- 9: Legal and policy restrictions on telemedical early medical abortion in the United States during COVID-19
- Conclusion
- Appendix - United Kingdom chronology
- Appendix - United States chronology
- Appendix - Demand-side TRAP laws in the United States
- Appendix - Abortion provider restrictions in the United States
- Appendix - State regulation of exchange health policies in the United States
- Appendix - Limitations on the use of state funds in the United States
- Appendix - State barriers to TEMA in the United States
About the author
Jordan A. Parsons is a PhD candidate at Bristol Medical School. His PhD is supported by the Wellcome Trust and explores decisions made with, for, and on behalf of cognitively impaired adults with kidney failure - particularly in relation to the choice between dialysis and conservative kidney management. Jordan's work is at the intersection of bioethics, medical law, and health policy. His wider research interests include sexual and reproductive health, organ transplantation law and policy, ethical issues in nephrology, genetic privacy, and theory in public policy.
Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis is Assistant Professor in Biolaw at Durham Law School. Chloe passed her Wellcome Trust-funded PhD at the University of Manchester on artificial womb technology in 2020 with no corrections and was awarded the University of Manchester distinguished achievement medal for humanities research student of the year. She has published extensively on the ethico-legal issues in gestation surrounding the development of artificial womb technologies, on abortion law and policy, and on choice in childbirth. Her broader research interests include sexual and reproductive health law, feminist legal theory, and comparative law. Chloe currently teaches Contemporary Issues in Biolaw and Contract Law at Durham.
Summary
This book examines early medical abortion provided by telemedicine, alongside the access barriers created by laws in the US and UK. It critically appraises a series of developments in this rapidly evolving subject providing an up to date and well-informed analysis.
