Though few studies look at how often people are coerced into having abortions, existing data indicate the situation is quite rare — and certainly less common than the opposite phenomenon of patients being forced to stay pregnant against their will.
Abortion opponents, however, say the problem of coercion is ubiquitous, so much so that laws and courts should target the health care providers making medication available through telehealth. In a legislative hearing for a Texas anti-abortion bill, activist Mark Lee Dickson argued that the threat of coerced abortions — and telehealth's role in facilitating them — justified specific laws going after medical providers, such as a bill making its way through the legislature that would let private citizens sue anyone who mails abortion pills into the state...
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