Editorial urges challenge to Iowa telemedicine ruling

An Iowa Board of Medicine administrative rule banning abortion through a teleconferencing system is politically motivated and “based on a conservative-leaning panel appointed by a conservative governor in opposition to abortion,” not on medical practices that would benefit rural patients, and should be challenged, according to a September 3 editorial in the Des Moines Register. The state board voted last year to ban physicians from remotely conducting medical assessments with patients in rural Iowa clinics, then dispensing Mifepristone (RU-486) in the early stages of a pregnancy. The rule requires personal contact between patient and physician.

Source: Des Moines Register