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Iowa's medical board moved Friday to end a rare system in which doctors use a video-conferencing system to distribute abortion-inducing pills to patients at clinics in remote areas across the state.The system allows Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to offer the pills at clinics in 15 remote locations where the organization doesn't have doctors who can meet with patients in person. Instead, a doctor, typically based in Des Moines, meets with patients using an Internet video system before the women receive the drugs.
Planned Parenthood established the Iowa program in 2008, and it was the first such system in the U.S. Several other states have since taken steps to prevent the practice.
Earlier this summer abortion opponents petitioned the Iowa Board of Medicine to halt that state's program. Efforts to legislate against the practice have failed in Iowa, where the Legislature is politically divided, but the board has the authority to make such policy decisions.
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