Washington state law has recognized pharmacists as health care providers since 1979, allowing them to prescribe many medications approved by the FDA. (Photo: Wichayada Suwanachun/Getty Images) A ...

Pharmacists prescribing abortion pills, as opposed to only dispensing them with a doctor’s prescription, could be the next frontier in the fight over abortion policy at the state level. A test program ...

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Washington state's first-in-the-nation stockpile of abortion drugs will serve as insurance against future lawsuits seeking to ban the procedure nationwide or a second ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — On Saturday, the Democratic budget writers in the Washington State Senate and House of Representatives unveiled a final budget plan for the upcoming biennium - one that includes an $8 ...

WASHINGTON -- A critical week in the battle over abortion rights -- what activists are calling the "fight of a generation" -- kicked off in the U.S. Senate on Monday, with Democrats preparing to force ...

In Washington and 17 other states where abortion is still legal, telehealth orders for abortion medication have doubled since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Anna Fiastro, a ...

A pilot program in Washington state aims to expand access to abortion by allowing pharmacists to directly prescribe abortion medication to patients via telehealth. The Pharmacist Abortion Access ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – With days left in office, Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued a directive on Friday, aiming to codify emergency abortion access in the state. Directive 25-01 instructs the ...

SEATTLE — A new study by researchers at the University of Washington found that telehealth services for abortion care doubled in the months following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe ...

A Washington-based nonprofit has launched a program training pharmacists to prescribe abortion medications via telehealth, a model that organizers hope other states will adopt to expand abortion ...