CA considers anonymous abortion drug prescriptions

[NxNW]

I can't imagine this being controversial, but here it is:

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5535877/california-shield-law-abortion-prescription-label?

A California bill that would allow health care providers to anonymously mail abortion drugs could soon become law, marking the latest effort by a blue state to safeguard access to medication abortion.

Under the measure, which the legislature is considering this week, doctors, pharmacists and others authorized to prescribe the drugs to end a pregnancy could leave their name off the prescription label.

According to recent studies, shield laws have expanded abortion access – roughly 12,000 abortions a month are provided under the laws, the vast majority to patients living in the nearly two dozen states that ban or severely restrict the procedure. Now, as legal attacks against telehealth providers put shield laws to the test, some states have moved to strengthen the laws by allowing providers to prescribe anonymously, reducing their risk of legal or individual harassment. To date, five states — New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Washington — have passed these laws, while a similar bill in Pennsylvania is currently in committee.

 

[johansen]

The insurance companies will know.

 

[Zaha Torte]

I can't imagine this being controversial, but here it is:

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5535877/california-shield-law-abortion-prescription-label?

A California bill that would allow health care providers to anonymously mail abortion drugs could soon become law, marking the latest effort by a blue state to safeguard access to medication abortion.

Under the measure, which the legislature is considering this week, doctors, pharmacists and others authorized to prescribe the drugs to end a pregnancy could leave their name off the prescription label.

According to recent studies, shield laws have expanded abortion access – roughly 12,000 abortions a month are provided under the laws, the vast majority to patients living in the nearly two dozen states that ban or severely restrict the procedure. Now, as legal attacks against telehealth providers put shield laws to the test, some states have moved to strengthen the laws by allowing providers to prescribe anonymously, reducing their risk of legal or individual harassment. To date, five states — New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Washington — have passed these laws, while a similar bill in Pennsylvania is currently in committee.

Abortion is murder

 

[DaisyDay]

The insurance companies will know.

Only if it's covered, which is rare, and only if the prescription goes through them. Otherwise, why would they?

 

[Desk trauma]

Abortion is murder

In no US jurisdiction.

 

[Zaha Torte]

In no US jurisdiction.

Slavery used to be legal - did that make it right?

 

[Desk trauma]

Slavery used to be legal - did that make it right?

It didn’t make what you said accurate.

 

[Zaha Torte]

It didn’t make what you said accurate.

So - if the State legalized the killing of White people - not murder?

 

[Desk trauma]

So - if the State legalized the killing of White people - not murder?

It wouldn’t make abortion murder in any US jurisdiction.

 

[Zaha Torte]

It wouldn’t make abortion murder in any US jurisdiction.

You didn't answer my question - and we all know why you didn't.

 

[Desk trauma]

You didn't answer my question - and we all know why you didn't.

oh? Tell me I know my own thoughts so poorly.

 

[Zaha Torte]

oh? Tell me I know my own thoughts so poorly.

If you said that it would still be murder to kill a White person - even if the State legalized it - then I could say the same of the unborn.

And you don't want to say that it would not be murder to kill White people if the State legalized it because it would make you look like a deranged monster.

So - you run from the question. Logic is not on the side of abortion.

 

[Desk trauma]

If you said that it would still be murder to kill a White person - even if the State legalized it - then I could say the same of the unborn.

And you don't want to say that it would not be murder to kill White people if the State legalized it because it would make you look like a deranged monster.

So - you run from the question. Logic is not on the side of abortion.

Go on, I know so little about what I think and want to know more.

 

[Zaha Torte]

Go on, I know so little about what I think and want to know more.

This is just very basic logic - which I am now convinced is something you do not consider in your thought processes.

Abortion is indefensible.

 

[Desk trauma]

This is just very basic logic - which I am now convinced is something you do not consider in your thought processes.

Abortion is indefensible.

Oh, what else? Never knew all this things about myself being unfamiliar with my own mind.

 

[MotoToTheMax]

This is just very basic logic - which I am now convinced is something you do not consider in your thought processes.

Abortion is indefensible.

Well, indefensible on this site at least because it's literally against the rules to argue otherwise. So congrats I guess?

 

[Zaha Torte]

Oh, what else? Never knew all this things about myself being unfamiliar with my own mind.

I haven't spoken about what is in your mind. I have been discussing logic.

Your feigned incredulity is not an argument.

 

[Zaha Torte]

Well, indefensible on this site at least because it's literally against the rules to argue otherwise. So congrats I guess?

It is simply indefensible - the rules of this forum notwithstanding.

 

[DaisyDay]

So - if the State legalized the killing of White people - not murder?

Under the law, if that were the law, then by definition it would not be murder. Why did you set up your hypothetical this way?

 

[hedrick]

From the article it looks like this is omitting a name on the package. I’m not sure that qualifies as an anonymous prescription.