Doctors often use telehealth with a patient and then prescribe drugs. And some abortion providers have been using telehealth to prescribe abortion inducing drugs to patients. The latest Ohio Abortion Report shows there were 10,155 drug-induced abortions in the state in 2024.

Republicans in the Ohio House have approved a bill that puts abortion drugs in a class of drugs that cannot be prescribed via telehealth.

House Bill 324 would put unnamed abortion medications into a group of drugs, based on side effects and more, that would require an in-person visit before a doctor could prescribe them.

“While telehealth can be beneficial offering increased access to care and convenience, we have had stories both here and throughout the United States where this falls short with high risk medicatio

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