Abortion opponents argue that telehealth abortion is making it easier to force people to have an abortion. Experts say the real picture of reproductive coercion looks quite different.

By Shefali Luthra for The 19th

Conservatives are testing a new argument in their legal efforts to end telehealth abortion: People using mail-order medication are being coerced into ending their pregnancies.

Two wrongful death lawsuits out of Texas, both filed this past month in federal court, allege that women were forced to take abortion pills prescribed by out-of-state telehealth providers.

In one case, a woman alleges that abortion medications were secretly mixed into her hot chocolate and caused her to miscarry. (The local police department investigated those allegations and said they were unfounded.)

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