A resolution remembering the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and condemning the continued and intensifying crackdown on human rights and basic freedoms within the People's Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, by the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes.
- Last Action
- 6/6/2023
Actions
- 2023-02-02Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2023-02-02Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-02-02 (00)
Protecting Access to Medication Abortion Act of 2023
This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure that patients may receive mifepristone through prescriptions issued via telehealth and filled by mail. The FDA has approved mifepristone for medication abortions (i.e., a procedure in which prescription drugs are used to terminate a pregnancy).
(Mifepristone is subject to a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, which imposes various safety-related requirements. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the FDA suspended enforcement of a requirement that the drug must be dispensed in person, a requirement in the strategy at the time. In January 2023, the FDA updated the strategy to remove the in-person dispensing requirement.)
Under this bill, the FDA must ensure that the strategy for mifepristone (1) does not have an in-person dispensing requirement, (2) allows patients to access prescriptions for mifepristone via telehealth, and (3) authorizes all pharmacies certified to dispense mifepristone to patients to do so via mail.
Cosponsors (9)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Timothy Kaine (D-VA)
- Angus King (I-ME)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Subjects
- Abortion
- Health care coverage and access
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Prescription drugs
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