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Amendment 460 would not only allow reliable gestational age checks and an assessment of health risks but would protect women from coercion and abuse. Private in-person appointments allow clinicians to confirm in a safe setting whether a woman really wishes to go ahead with an abortion or if she is being coerced. Telemedicine is inadequate, since it is impossible to know whether an abuser is lurking in the background. We spent a long time talking about this on Friday in relation to assisted dying, and the same process should be gone through for abortion pills.