New Health Canada guidelines mean accessing abortion pill will be easier
Health Canada has announced new guidelines around the prescribing and dispensing of Mifegymiso, stripping away several barriers women faced to access the so-called “abortion pill.”
The changes include allowing the medication to be directly dispensed to patients by a pharmacist, which they could not do before. The new regulations also allow Mifegymiso to be prescribed up to nine weeks or 63 days into a pregnancy. The previous limit was seven weeks or 49 days.
The new Health Canada gui
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