Court ruling lets Arizona abortion provider mail abortion pills and see patients by telehealth
Planned Parenthood Arizona says the changes are especially beneficial for rural and low-income patients who previously had to make two trips to a clinic for a single procedure.
The state’s largest abortion provider is now offering consultations via telehealth and mailing patients the abortion pill, after laws banning it from doing so were blocked by a judge earlier this year.
In February, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gregory Como struck down multiple state laws restricting how and when women can terminate a pregnancy in Arizona, ruling that they violate the state’s newly adopted abortion rights amendment. Those laws prohibited the use of telehealth in abortion care, forbade the mailing of abortion pills and required a 24-hour delay, an ultrasound and the recitation of state-mandated information about alternatives like adoption before an abortion could take place.
SOURCE: AZ Mirror, by Gloria Rebecca Gomez, 8 April 2026.
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