Safeguarding for women obtaining abortion pills without in-person consultation

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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
I would like to ask what measures are currently undertaken to ensure that a woman requesting abortion pills by a telephone consultation with an abortion provider, without any in-person review, is actually pregnant and that the abortion pills, once obtained, will be for her use and her use only?

Yours faithfully,

Dr Dermot Kearney

Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Dr Kearney,

Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI request (our ref: FOI-1523324).

Yours sincerely, 

Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care

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