Requiring physicians to dispense mifepristone: an unnecessary limit on safety and access to medical abortion

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Practice (Norman) and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Soon), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Contraception Access Research Team (Norman, Soon), Women's Health Research Institute, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC wendynorman@ubc.ca.
² Department of Family Practice (Norman) and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Soon), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Contraception Access Research Team (Norman, Soon), Women's Health Research Institute, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.

Wendy V Norman et al. CMAJ. 2016.

. 2016 Dec 6;188(17-18):E429-E430.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.160581. Epub 2016 Oct 17.

¹ Department of Family Practice (Norman) and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Soon), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Contraception Access Research Team (Norman, Soon), Women's Health Research Institute, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC wendynorman@ubc.ca.
² Department of Family Practice (Norman) and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Soon), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Contraception Access Research Team (Norman, Soon), Women's Health Research Institute, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.

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