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 ...

The Supreme Court said states should decide access to abortion, but activists are mounting lawsuits and lobbying Washington ...

Washington State’s program is the first, but other states are expected to try allowing pharmacists to prescribe the pills to ...

Several states, most of which have some pro-life laws in place, have also passed restrictions on abortion pills designed to ...

Mifepristone is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end pregnancy up to 10 weeks. In recent years, the FDA has loosened restrictions to allow patients to be assessed via telehealth ...

A pilot program launched this month in Washington state has trained pharmacists to prescribe the abortion-drug combo ...

Pharmacists prescribing abortion pills, as opposed to only dispensing them with a doctor’s prescription, could be the next ...

Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, pledged to support efforts to reimpose restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone if Trump ...

The rights we now have in CT are threatened by Project 2025’s plan to push the FDA to reverse approval of mifepristone and ...

Washington pharmacists are allowed to prescribe abortion pills, sparking debate and potential changes in other states. Read more here.

In September 2000, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a medical abortion regimen for women up to 49 days gestation consisting of 600 mg mifepristone (a progesterone ...

A new bill would further clamp down on abortions in Indiana by banning procedures using pills and requiring women to file an affidavit of rape to meet one of the state’s few exceptions. Its future is ...