Sex Sells — But Abortion Pills Are Another Story
Telemedicine companies like Hers offer up dubious libido enhancers, but can’t deliver safe and effective abortion options
For the past few weeks, New York City has been blanketed with ads for a brand-new telemedicine site called Hers, with pastel-toned posters depicting a diverse group of millennial women clad in light-colored clothing, urging them to go online to buy their birth control pills or give their libidos a boost.
Hers, an offshoot of the male-focused telemedicine site Hims, is just one of several telemedicine sites that cater to female reproductive health concerns. Lemonaid and Nurx offer online access to a range of similar services, and even Planned Parenthood has thrown its hat into the ring with Planned Parenthood Direct, which can connect users to birth control and UTI treatments. But one reproductive health concern is noticeably absent from most telemedicine sites’ inventories: abortion.
Only two telemedicine websites will send abortion pills to people in the United States today.
Decades of research have shown that abortion pills (specifically, the combination of mifepristone and misoprostol) are a safe and effective method to…
