Freehill says that while advocates of the reclassification amendments claim doctors can keep using the medications as they did before, this only works in theory. Since Dobbs, she’s had numerous problems getting misoprostol filled for patients and had multiple instances of pharmacists telling her they would not prescribe it under any circumstances. She worries this will only get worse if the medication becomes classified as a Schedule IV drug.
Any delay in a patient receiving misoprostol could be life-threatening, adds Freehill. She poses a hypothetical of a patient who is heavily bleeding attempting to fill the prescription and getting denied by a pharmacy. “I may or may not get that message right away, and hopefully quickly resolve that problem,” she says.
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