Three Republican-led states will be allowed to move forward with a lawsuit to restrict access to mifepristone, a Texas ...

Since its approval in France in 1988, the abortifacient mifepristone (RU486) has proven to be a safe, effective, acceptable option for millions of women seeking abortion during the first several ...

In the meantime, abortion opponents have set their sights on shutting down access to abortion pills — mifepristone and misoprostol. The Supreme Court rebuffed one Texas lawsuit targeting ...

A pilot program launched this month in Washington state has trained pharmacists to prescribe the abortion-drug combo mifepristone and misoprostol to women seeking abortions. The initiative ...

Women return to the office 2 days after taking the mifepristone to be evaluated and to receive the misoprostol tablets; follow-up occurs in approximately 2 weeks. However, a number of alternative ...

On day one of his administration, Trump’s Attorney General could also reinterpret the Comstock Act to criminalize the act of sending mifepristone through the mail. This would prevent healthcare ...

Abortion pills, also known as a chemical or medication abortion, involve a two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol taken ... Biden administration and the maker of mifepristone asked ...

The initiative comes after a new state law reclassified misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances.

Access to the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol have become the epicenter of the abortion debate since the overturning of Roe v. Wade nearly three years ago. Nearly two-thirds of all ...

The New Orleans Health Department is also studying the wider impact of Louisiana’s abortion restrictions on access to mifepristone and misoprostol. Anyone can report problems obtaining or ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022 and states implemented bans, anti-abortion activists started to turn their attention to new fights. One was a national abortion ban.