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A thread of articles on the safe use of abortion pills at home, following consultation with a doctor online or by telephone.
We need #Telemedicinenow4ni
It is safe -abortion following telemedicine is in place in England Scotland Wales and R. Ireland.
Please read @RobinSwannMoH
We need #Telemedicinenow4ni
It is safe -abortion following telemedicine is in place in England Scotland Wales and R. Ireland.
Please read @RobinSwannMoH
'women in NI are able to follow remote instructions and self-manage EMA safely, even when the threat of prosecution was hanging over them. For over a decade, hundreds of women a year have accessed abortion pills from WHW / WoW and completed their abortion' https://buff.ly/2ypsU7w
Telemedicine abortion&home use are safe!
'The World Health Organization promotes self-care for people wanting to manage their abortion at home. Self-managed medical abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy following evidence-based regimens is safe '
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'The World Health Organization promotes self-care for people wanting to manage their abortion at home. Self-managed medical abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy following evidence-based regimens is safe '
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There is no reason why NI cannot follow England, Scotland, &Wales in implementing telemedical abortion provision, and the failure to do so is causing, and will continue to cause, undue harm to thousands of women throughout the pandemic. #TelemedicineNow4NI https://buff.ly/34lczwR
Telemedicine abortion combines medication abortion—which uses pills to end a pregnancy—and telemedicine—which allows health providers to supervise the use of abortion pills via videoconferencing or telephone consultations.
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Medication abortion is a safe and effective method of abortion that can be completed outside of a medical setting—for example, in the comfort and privacy of one’s home. #Telemedicinenow4ni https://buff.ly/2V1vx79
Women who self‐administer medical abortion drugs in early pregnancy (up to nine weeks gestational age) experience similar rates of completed abortion as women who undergo provider‐administered procedures in low‐to‐middle and high‐resource settings.
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'in the absence of the kind of integrated SRH services that we see in other parts of the UK, telemedicine would be a useful way to provide an EMA service from March 2020 since it may take at least two years to fully develop the kind of services we need.' https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/default/files/2019-12/policybrief14.pdf
Hundreds of people have self managed their own abortion in NI, even before it was legal, using remote consultation and abortion pills at home from reputable providers. Here are some FAQs from Women on Web. We need #TelemedicineNow4NI
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We need telemedicine and home use of abortion pills urgently.
Traveling to England for care is not an option. The regulations are law, let healthcare professionals provide!
The @healthdpt and @RobinSwannMoH have the power to act.
#TelemedicineNow4NI https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/allow-remote-abortion-provision-in-ni
Traveling to England for care is not an option. The regulations are law, let healthcare professionals provide!
The @healthdpt and @RobinSwannMoH have the power to act.
#TelemedicineNow4NI https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/allow-remote-abortion-provision-in-ni
