Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2023
The game-changing plan to cut barriers to medical abortion
16 January 2023 - A push is under way to make medical abortion more accessible across Australia by cutting down the regulatory barriers around who can prescribe the pill combination and where it can be stocked.
Non-profit pharmaceutical company MS Health – the private sponsor behind medical abortion in Australia – submitted applications to the TGA in December that proposed expanding the number of health practitioners eligible to prescribe the medication, and removing the requirements for recertification and pharmacist registration.
