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Aid Access is a nonprofit organization that provides access to medication abortion by mail to the United States and worldwide. It describes its work as a harm reduction strategy designed to provide safe access to mifepristone and misoprostol for those able to become pregnant in the United States who may not otherwise have access to abortion or miscarriage management services. [2]
The mifepristone-misoprostol combination is, by far, the most recommended drug regimen for medical abortions, but other drug combinations are available. Misoprostol alone, without mifepristone, may be used in some circumstances for medical abortion, and has even been demonstrated to be successful in the second trimester. [37]
On September 28, 2000, Danco Laboratories received approval to distribute mifepristone (under the Mifeprex brand name) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). [7] Danco had exclusive sales rights in the United States until 2019, when GenBioPro obtained approval to sell a generic version of mifepristone. [8]
Also under review are the 2016 decisions to extend the window in which mifepristone could be used to terminate pregnancies from seven weeks’ gestation to 10 weeks and reduce the number of in ...
Both the Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, which makes the brand version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, had asked the court to immediately step in. Alito said the hold would remain in effect ...
Mifepristone is one of two drugs used in medication abortion in the U.S. But mifepristone has many uses in reproductive care and in other contexts, experts say.
Mifepristone, and also known by its developmental code name RU-486, is a drug typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy. [8] This combination is 97% effective [ 9 ] during the first 63 days (9 weeks) of pregnancy , yet effective in the second trimester as well.
Mifepristone is used to end a pregnancy that is less than 70 days developed. The pills are taken about two days apart. Mifepristone stops the “supply of hormones that maintains the interior of ...