Planned Parenthood has revealed a plan to expand its so-called "telemed" abortion process to clinics across the country over five years. The process allows a woman to obtain abortion pills via teleconferencing without an actual physical exam.
Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue, said the plan would make abortion services more readily available, thus impacting the abortion rate.
"By expanding these abortions to all of these additional clinics," she said, "some in places where right now there aren't abortion services for hundreds of miles, we believe that's going to increase the number of abortions."
Derrick Jones, spokesperson for National Right to Life, said that while the "telemed" drug has been touted as an be-all, end-all drug for women to have an abortion, it's anything but safe.
"It's a multi-pill, multi-stage process," he said, "and it does have enormous physical risks."
Contact: Audrey Bright
Source: CitizenLink
Publish Date: May 24, 2010
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