The SCOTUS abortion pill case taught women how to access mifepristone.
6 months ago

The SCOTUS abortion pill case taught women how to access mifepristone.

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. “The SCOTUS case raised awareness of abortion pills and the pills-by-mail option,” said Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C, which maintains a website providing a comprehensive guide for obtaining abortion pills through telehealth, community networks, and online pill vendors in all 50 states. Public scrutiny of abortion pill research in fact led academic publisher Sage to retract three published studies written by anti-abortion advocates—two of which had been cited in court filings in the mifepristone case—because of a “lack of scientific rigor.” News articles repeatedly reported that over 5 million women have safely used mifepristone in the U.S. since the FDA’s approval of the medication and that across the world, many more millions have safely used mifepristone in the 96 countries that have approved it for abortion use. The Guttmacher count also does not include abortions obtained outside the medical system, including through community networks providing free abortion pills to patients in states that have banned online pill vendors. Related From Slate Brett Kavanaugh Slipped a Big Poison Pill Into His Mifepristone Opinion It took the COVID-19 pandemic, a lawsuit filed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and reproductive rights advocates, and, later, the Biden administration to finally get the FDA to remove the medically unnecessary in-person dispensing requirement and open the door to telehealth provision of abortion pills and pharmacy dispensing of the medication.

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Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against N.Y. doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine
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1 week, 3 days ago

Texas’ abortion pill lawsuit against N.Y. doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine

LA Times  

Three members of the Women’s March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, last year. In suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, Texas has launched one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democratic-controlled states passed to protect physicians …

New York doctor sued for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine
1 week, 3 days ago

New York doctor sued for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against …

The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone isn’t the last word on the abortion pill
6 months, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone isn’t the last word on the abortion pill

Associated Press  

The Supreme Court ‘s ruling on technical grounds Thursday keeps the abortion pill mifepristone available in the U.S. for now, but it won’t be the last word on the issue, and the unanimous opinion offers some clues for how abortion opponents can keep trying to deny it to women nationwide. “The decision is good that the doctors don’t have standing,” …

US Supreme Court maintains access to the abortion pill mifepristone
6 months, 1 week ago

US Supreme Court maintains access to the abortion pill mifepristone

Hindustan Times  

The United States Supreme Court has rejected a bid to restrict access to a medication used in abortions, thereby ending abortion opponents' attempts to limit access to the operation, reported Al Jazeera. The US Supreme Court preserved full access to a widely used abortion pill in a case that carried major stakes for reproductive rights and election-year politics. In 2022, …

Supreme Court throws out challenge to key abortion pill mifepristone
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court throws out challenge to key abortion pill mifepristone

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A ruling on Thursday found that the group …

Abortion pill access is unchanged after the Supreme Court’s decision. Here’s what you need to know
6 months, 1 week ago

Abortion pill access is unchanged after the Supreme Court’s decision. Here’s what you need to know

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Access to the abortion pill mifepristone will not change after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort Thursday by anti-abortion groups to roll back its availability, a win for abortion rights supporters and millions of women in states where abortion is legal. Despite the ruling, women’s access to mifepristone still largely depends on a patchwork of state …

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone
6 months, 1 week ago

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The nine justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food …

Supreme Court won’t restrict access to abortion pill
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court won’t restrict access to abortion pill

Politico  

Thursday’s decision shifts the spotlight to conservatives’ other strategies to limit access to the drug, such as lobbying state legislators to pass laws prohibiting its use and paving the way for new restrictions in a potential second Trump administration. The high court’s decision does not prevent future administrations from rolling back access to mifepristone; it merely holds that anti-abortion doctors …

Editorial: Supreme Court keeps medication abortion safe — for now
6 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Supreme Court keeps medication abortion safe — for now

LA Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a challenge to mifepristone, one of the two pharmaceuticals used for medication abortion. The Supreme Court did the right thing Thursday by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions. Of course, this wasn’t the court protecting access to abortion, which it …

Challenge to abortion drug rejected by U.S. Supreme Court
6 months, 1 week ago

Challenge to abortion drug rejected by U.S. Supreme Court

Salon  

On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected a challenged restricting access to mifepristone, the first drug used in a medication abortion. The court’s decision in the case U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine ruled against Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, an organization of anti-abortion activists backed by the Christian right-wing lobbying group Alliance Defending Freedom, who brought the …

Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS were thrilled when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. With her husband, Senator Josh Hawley, watching from the public gallery, she told the justices that the FDA’s policy on mifepristone left her clients facing a “Hobson’s choice”. “Shouldn’t somebody be able to challenge that in court?” That’s quite unlikely, replied Elizabeth Prelogar, the solicitor-general who ably defended …

Supreme Court restricting mifepristone would be a "slippery slope" for future drugs
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court restricting mifepristone would be a "slippery slope" for future drugs

Salon  

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could restrict access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions, nationwide. “Since its approval over two decades ago, mifepristone has been used by more than 5 million people in the U.S. to end pregnancies through abortion or to support miscarriage care.” McGill Johnson said “we …

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court
8 months, 3 weeks ago

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for millions of American women and for scores of drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Chief Justice John Roberts “Why can’t the court specify that this relief runs to precisely …

The Current Attack on Abortion Pills Will Fail. The Next One Will Be So Much Worse.
54 years, 11 months ago

The Current Attack on Abortion Pills Will Fail. The Next One Will Be So Much Worse.

Slate  

There are always a couple of tells when the most conservative Supreme Court in more than a century finds itself adjudicating a truly mortifying and meritless case. This case is about a handful of physicians seeking to wield their “conscience objections” to abortion as a cudgel against everyone’s access to safe reproductive care throughout the country. As Justice Ketanji Brown …

Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington, Mar 26 The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US last year, in the court's first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, said the court …

Supreme Court Justices Question Why Abortion Pill Suit Is In Front Of Them
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Justices Question Why Abortion Pill Suit Is In Front Of Them

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday, regarding the legality of federal regulations allowing the distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone through the mail, hinged on whether the anti-abortion doctors association that brought the case had standing to sue in the first place. Meanwhile, Alito, the author of the court’s 2022 majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade, pressed Prelogar …

Supreme Court seems concerned about whether abortion opponents have a right to sue over medication
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court seems concerned about whether abortion opponents have a right to sue over medication

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington, Mar 26 Supreme Court justices seemed concerned on Tuesday about whether abortion opponents have the right to sue over a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US last year, in the court's first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top …

The next Supreme Court abortion rights battle is coming for the most common form of care
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The next Supreme Court abortion rights battle is coming for the most common form of care

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Restricting abortion doesn’t make it less necessary.” Lawyers …

Opinion: The mifepristone case should be an easy one for the Supreme Court. But will it be?
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: The mifepristone case should be an easy one for the Supreme Court. But will it be?

LA Times  

As a matter of law, the case argued Tuesday at the Supreme Court concerning the availability of medicine to induce abortions is easy: The Food and Drug Administration has the authority to make mifepristone available and to later increase its availability. A conservative panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said that the judge was wrong in stopping …

Q&A: The FDA says the abortion pill mifepristone is safe. Here’s the evidence
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Q&A: The FDA says the abortion pill mifepristone is safe. Here’s the evidence

LA Times  

A patient prepares to take mifepristone for a medication abortion at a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., in 2022. Mifepristone is the generic name of a pill that makes up half of the two-drug regimen used in medication abortions in the United States. Likewise, after the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated acceptance of telemedicine, the FDA in 2021 stopped requiring patients to …

Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments over the abortion drug mifepristone
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments over the abortion drug mifepristone

CNN  

CNN — A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday of the idea of a nationwide ban or new limits on mifepristone, the primary drug used for medication abortions. And you’re asking us to extend and pursue this relatively new course, which this court has never adopted itself.” “This case seems like a prime example of turning what could …

Supreme Court to hear arguments over mifepristone Tuesday
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Supreme Court to hear arguments over mifepristone Tuesday

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will again wade into the fractious issue of abortion this week when it hears arguments over a medication used in the most common way to end a pregnancy, a case with profound implications for millions of women no matter where they live in America and, perhaps, for the race for the White House. Two years …

Mifepristone Access Is Coming Before The Supreme Court. How Safe Is This Abortion Pill?
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Mifepristone Access Is Coming Before The Supreme Court. How Safe Is This Abortion Pill?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. Abortion opponents say the more lax restrictions resulted in many more “emergency complications.” But that argument lumps together women experiencing a range …

What's at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case
8 months, 4 weeks ago

What's at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case

NPR  

What's at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case Enlarge this image toggle caption Tracy Lee for NPR Tracy Lee for NPR Just months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a newly-formed group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine sued the Food and Drug Administration, challenging its approval of mifepristone, a medication used for abortion. It …

Supreme Court’s antiabortion conservatives could restrict abortion pills sent by mail, even in blue states
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Supreme Court’s antiabortion conservatives could restrict abortion pills sent by mail, even in blue states

LA Times  

The two-drug combination of mifepristone and misoprostol is used to end pregnancies, particularly in the early weeks. The Supreme Court’s antiabortion majority is set to consider whether to order a reversal in U.S. drug laws and restrict women from obtaining abortion medication at pharmacies or through the mail. Shortly after the Supreme Court repealed the right to abortion in the …

The US Supreme Court just ruled on mifepristone. How safe is the abortion pill?
9 months ago

The US Supreme Court just ruled on mifepristone. How safe is the abortion pill?

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. Legal briefs filed with the court describe the pill’s safety in vastly different terms: Medical professionals call it “among the safest medications” ever approved by …

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Tuesday on abortion pill limits
9 months ago

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments Tuesday on abortion pill limits

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — The same U.S. Supreme Court that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion will hear oral arguments Tuesday over access to mifepristone, a pharmaceutical used in both medication abortion and miscarriage care. “While there are no comprehensive data on the number of self-managed medication abortions in the United States, evidence suggests they have been increasing in the past …

From convenience to crisis: Here's what will happen if the Supreme Court restricts mifepristone
9 months ago

From convenience to crisis: Here's what will happen if the Supreme Court restricts mifepristone

Salon  

On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will finally hear oral arguments over the safety of mifepristone — the first drug used in a medication abortion. “We found that 2 percent of those patients said they would not have been able to get an abortion at all,” Upadhyay said, noting that "sounds small, but there are over a million abortions …

How The Far Right Engineered An Assault On Abortion Access, Even In Blue States
9 months ago

How The Far Right Engineered An Assault On Abortion Access, Even In Blue States

Huff Post  

The conservative legal movement still has its sights set on abortion. Last April, the judge agreed that the FDA’s mifepristone approval should be invalidated with a 67-page decision that took a series of bizarre turns, at one point stating the term “fetus” was “unscientific.” The Supreme Court subsequently took action to preserve the status quo while the case wound its …

More than six in 10 US abortions in 2023 were done by medication — a significant jump since 2020
9 months ago

More than six in 10 US abortions in 2023 were done by medication — a significant jump since 2020

Associated Press  

More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, new research shows. The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, said about 642,700 medication abortions took place in the first full calendar year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “For example, …

US pharmacy chains will offer abortion drug as Supreme Court prepares to hear major post-Roe case
9 months, 3 weeks ago

US pharmacy chains will offer abortion drug as Supreme Court prepares to hear major post-Roe case

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Major pharmacy retailers Walgreens …

Journal publisher retracts studies used by Texas judge who ruled to suspend use of abortion pill
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Journal publisher retracts studies used by Texas judge who ruled to suspend use of abortion pill

CNN  

CNN — The academic publisher Sage Publications has retracted studies used by a Texas judge in a ruling that would suspend federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The Texas judge whose ruling in April 2023 would suspend federal approval of mifepristone, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, cited this study to suggest that the groups that brought the mifepristone lawsuit …

Study cited by Texas judge in abortion pill case retracted
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Study cited by Texas judge in abortion pill case retracted

Raw Story  

Two of the key studies cited by plaintiffs and judges as evidence that medication abortion should be pulled from the market or heavily restricted have been retracted because of undeclared conflicts of interest and unreliable findings, academic publisher Sage announced Monday. The studies are: “A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015” “A …

"Devastating": Restricting abortion drug access would inflict unnecessary suffering for miscarriages
10 months, 3 weeks ago

"Devastating": Restricting abortion drug access would inflict unnecessary suffering for miscarriages

Salon  

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court set a date for one of the highest stakes cases on abortion care this year: accessibility to mifepristone, commonly referred to as “the abortion pill." “Patients who need Mifepristone to complete a miscarriage will suffer,” Julia Kaye, ACLU’s senior staff attorney with the Reproductive Freedom Project, told Salon. “For some patients, particularly low income …

New Jersey already protects abortion rights. Now Democrats want to cover out-of-pocket costs, too
10 months, 4 weeks ago

New Jersey already protects abortion rights. Now Democrats want to cover out-of-pocket costs, too

Associated Press  

TRENTON, N.J. — Dawn Ericksen was struggling with an opioid addiction a dozen years ago when she got pregnant and realized she couldn’t keep herself safe, much less a baby. “It wasn’t easy to kind of come hat in hand, so to speak, and say ‘This is something I need help with.’ It’s a very vulnerable place to be.” Experiences …

DOJ and Mifepristone maker urge Supreme Court to preserve full access to abortion pill
11 months ago

DOJ and Mifepristone maker urge Supreme Court to preserve full access to abortion pill

CNN  

CNN — The Justice Department and the manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to preserve full access to the drug, warning that a lower-court ruling restricting its availability “threatens profound harms” nationwide. The pair of filings from the Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, a manufacturer of the drug and an intervenor in the …

US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions
11 months, 3 weeks ago

US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions

Associated Press  

Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to get. A research letter published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at requests for these pills from people who weren’t pregnant and sought …

Uncertainty around US abortion landscape drives surge in requests to stockpile abortion medication, research shows
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Uncertainty around US abortion landscape drives surge in requests to stockpile abortion medication, research shows

CNN  

CNN — Amid significant upheaval to the abortion landscape in the United States, thousands of women have preemptively requested medication abortion pills in case they need them in the future, new research shows. In the first eight months that Aid Access offered advance provision of medication abortion – from September 2021 through April 2022 – it received an average of …

U.S. women stock up on abortion pills, especially when there’s news about restrictions
11 months, 3 weeks ago

U.S. women stock up on abortion pills, especially when there’s news about restrictions

LA Times  

Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol at an Iowa clinic in 2010. Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to get. A research letter published Tuesday in JAMA Internal …

US Supreme Court set to rule on abortion pill restrictions
1 year ago

US Supreme Court set to rule on abortion pill restrictions

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to rule on restrictions imposed by a lower court on a widely used abortion pill in the latest skirmish in the battle over reproductive rights in the United States. The lower court ruling imposing restrictions on the use of the abortion drug mifepristone has been on hold pending a decision by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court …

A common abortion pill will come before the US Supreme Court. Here’s how mifepristone works
1 year ago

A common abortion pill will come before the US Supreme Court. Here’s how mifepristone works

Associated Press  

Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S., and one of the two drugs used — mifepristone — will now go in front of the U.S. Supreme Court next year. The Supreme Court will hear a case in the spring that could block mail-order access to mifepristone and impose restrictions on its use, even in states …

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case
1 year ago

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case

NPR  

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court reentered the abortion debate Wednesday, agreeing to review a lower court decision that would make mifepristone, the commonly used abortion pill, less accessible. Sponsor Message The clash over the abortion pill began April 7 in Texas when U.S. …

Supreme Court announces it will hear abortion pill case
1 year ago

Supreme Court announces it will hear abortion pill case

Salon  

The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would issue a ruling on whether a commonly used abortion pill should be widely available. Although U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas issued a ruling in April to outright revoke the FDA's authorization of mifepristone, the Supreme Court halted that decision the same month. President Biden's administration asked the Supreme Court …

Supreme Court is asked to reject limits on a drug used in the most common method of abortion
1 year, 3 months ago

Supreme Court is asked to reject limits on a drug used in the most common method of abortion

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off mail-order access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States. A federal appeals court ruling in August would revoke approval for sending the drug through the mail and would shorten, from the current 10 weeks to …

US appeals court upholds limits on access to abortion pill mifepristone
1 year, 4 months ago

US appeals court upholds limits on access to abortion pill mifepristone

Al Jazeera  

The latest ruling over mifepristone’s FDA approval is likely to send the pill’s fate to the US Supreme Court. A United States appeals court has struck the latest blow in an ongoing battle over the pill mifepristone, often used in medication-induced abortions On Wednesday, the three-judge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned a lower court’s wholesale revocation …

Abortion pill case moves to appeals court, on track for Supreme Court
1 year, 7 months ago

Abortion pill case moves to appeals court, on track for Supreme Court

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Lawyers seeking to preserve pregnant women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion got pushback Wednesday from appellate judges with a history of supporting abortion restrictions. Biden administration attorney Sarah Harrington opened by calling U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s April 7 ruling an “unprecedented and unjustified attack on the FDA’s scientific expertise.” …

Abortion pill case moves to appeals court, on track for Supreme Court
1 year, 7 months ago

Abortion pill case moves to appeals court, on track for Supreme Court

Firstpost  

Legal arguments about women’s access to medicine used in the most common method of abortion will be heard in a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday, in a lawsuit challenging a Food and Medicine Administration decision issued more than two decades ago. Judges nominated to the district court and appeals court by former President Donald Trump are playing …

Beyond the 'abortion pill': Real-life experiences of individuals taking mifepristone
1 year, 7 months ago

Beyond the 'abortion pill': Real-life experiences of individuals taking mifepristone

NPR  

Beyond the 'abortion pill': Real-life experiences of individuals taking mifepristone Enlarge this image toggle caption Gracey Zhang for NPR Gracey Zhang for NPR For a while, it was known as RU-486. It's called Mifeprex or mifepristone – but many know it as "the abortion pill." Sponsor Message The stories illustrate how mifepristone is indeed an "abortion pill" — but it …

Conservatives may lose the mifepristone battle but their war on abortion rights will continue
1 year, 8 months ago

Conservatives may lose the mifepristone battle but their war on abortion rights will continue

Raw Story  

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the abortion drug mifepristone will remain available while appeals play out on a lawsuit that sought to take the drug off the market. National anti-choice groups have set their sights on abolishing abortion at the federal level, which is why they’re trying to get a regulatory do-over for mifepristone 23 years and 5 million …

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