The particular piece of legislation requires physicians performing drug-induced abortions to be physically in the room with a patient to administer a first dose of the drug, which means that telemedicine-assisted abortions will become illegal.
Planned Parenthood has been known to use telemedicine in abortions in other states, though the organization says that it has not offered telemedicine as a tool in abortion services in Missouri.
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