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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.
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 ...
In 2016, as the U.S. Presidential administration turned over, Plan C launched their website to share information about online abortion pill providers and the self-managed abortion process. The Plan C team began researching websites calling themselves online pharmacies and claiming to sell abortion pills, tested the pills received by mail from ...
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.
Demand for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol has grown as states have imposed bans or restrictions or seek to limit abortions after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
Mifepristone is approved in only one sub-Saharan African country—South Africa, where it was approved in 2001. [148] It is also approved in one north African country—Tunisia, also in 2001. [149] Mifepristone was approved for use in India in 2002, where medication abortion is referred to as "medical termination of pregnancy".
Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions. What SCOTUS ruling means for ...
Opill, the first birth control pill approved for people to buy without a prescription, is now on shelves at some Walgreens stores. It's expected at CVS and Walmart in early April.