These Hawaii Doctors Are Fighting Guam’s Abortion Law…Abortions are legal in Guam, but women have no access to them because of a lack of local providers and rules requiring in-person consultations for the procedures.
Women in Guam who want an abortion are being forced to come to Hawaii or travel elsewhere for the procedure since the island’s only abortion provider left a few years ago.
But two Hawaii physicians and the American Civil Liberties Union are trying to convince a Guam court that women in the U.S. territory should be able to get abortions using medication prescribed remotely instead of having to travel for an in-person appointment. A Guam judge denied a preliminary injunction last week and the case is now pending in District Court.
Drs. Shandhini Raidoo and Bliss Kaneshiro, who live in Hawaii and are licensed to practice in Guam, are part of an ongoing TelAbortion pilot study that allows them to prescribe abortion medication by mail.
