Martha Bebinger reports:
Huddled around a small conference table in Greater Boston, fewer than a dozen volunteers form an ad hoc assembly line to slip hundreds of pills into padded envelopes.
It’s not an illegal drug operation, at least not here in Massachusetts. But, the volunteers’ work to fill online prescription requests could risk criminal or civil charges in states where abortion is banned.
The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, or The MAP, is the group that runs the website offering these medications by mail to people living in states that restrict abortion. It’s one of several organizations around the U.S. conducting these missions. And in their view, they are fulfilling a basic health care need amid a fierce national debate and legal uncertainty.
Read more at WBUR.
h/t, Joe Cadillic