At the end of 2024, Washington State implemented a month-long pilot program that allowed some pharmacists to prescribe mifepristone to patients via telehealth screening. Mifepristone is one component of the two-part drug regimen needed to end pregnancies up to ten weeks of gestation. (The second part, misoprostol, is widely available.) The program, Pharmacist Abortion Access Project, is spearheaded by Uplift International and aims to serve as a model for other interested states where abortion is legal. The medication was provided by the online pharmacy Honeybee Health. According to the New York Times, the “project intends for full-fledged pharmacist prescribing to start sometime this year and to eventually allow in-person prescribing in Washington pharmacies, meaning patients could go to a pharmacy and receive a prescription and pills in one visit.”

The problem is that mifepristone is not equivalent to a flu vaccine or even birth control, both of which can be prescribed by pharmacists in some states. An induced abortion is a medically generated event that results in fetal death. One in five women who take abortion pills experience complications, such as hemorrhaging or infection.  …

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