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Mifepristone is used in more than half of all abortions in the US. The drug was first approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration in most cases up to 10 weeks of pregnancy in 2000.
In 2000, GenBioPro's generic version of mifepristone was approved for medication abortion, as part of a two-drug regimen in combination with misoprostol. In 2023, GenBioPro sued the FDA to obtain a legal judgement confirming that mifepristone could continue to be sold, in spite of anti-abortion laws passed in some states.
Mifepristone was developed in 1980 and came into use in France in 1987. [16] It became available in the United States in 2000, for medication abortion, and in 2010, for Cushing's syndrome. [17] [10] [12] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [18] Mifepristone was approved in Canada in January 2017. [19] [20]
T he first birth control pill that people can buy without a prescription, called Opill, is shipping to stores this week.. Perrigo, the Ireland-based company that makes Opill, said the pills should ...
Mifepristone is currently in the middle of a political tug-of-war, with some conservative states seeking to restrict or eliminate access to the abortion pill, while other states are trying to ...
Soviet poster circa 1925. Title translation: "Abortions induced by either self-taught midwives or obstetricians not only maim the woman, they also often lead to death". A self-induced abortion (also called a self-managed abortion, or sometimes a self-induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself, or with the help of other, non-medical assistance.
After the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to maintain access the abortion pill mifepristone, physicians will be able to keep prescribing the drug as a lower court case on its FDA approval moves ...
The nation’s highest court will weigh in on a challenge to the FDA’s approval of the drug