Allison Case is a family medicine physician who is licensed to practice in both Indiana and New Mexico.
Via telehealth appointments, she’s used her dual license in the past to help some women who have driven from Texas to New Mexico, where abortion is legal, to get their prescription for abortion medication.
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Many of them travel from neighboring Texas, where abortion is banned.
Many clinics rely on help from physicians out of state, like Case, who are able to alleviate some of the pressure and keep wait times down by providing services via telemedicine.
But if the ban takes effect again, she says, she will reluctantly stop those services.
“Just because you comply with the law doesn’t mean that anti-abortion people won’t come after you and try to vilify you and make your life difficult,” Hagstrom Miller says.
“I just think it’s a crazy thing to think I will drive 1 1/2 hours to Illinois to use my New Mexico [medical] license to help people driving from Texas to New Mexico to get their abortion,” she says.