The central dispute in the case is whether the Food and Drug Administration overlooked serious safety problems when it made mifepristone easier to obtain, including through mail-order pharmacies.

Last year, the Supreme Court preserved the Food and Drug Administration’s previous existing approval of mifepristone. As the drug faces greater legal challenges, and after the fall of Roe v.

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 ...

FILE - Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic ... deciding that the three states could — for now — pursue the revised lawsuit, and that venue disputes could be heard later. The ...

Mifepristone has been under attack by abortion opponents, with several states seeking in federal court to restrict its use. Now used in two-thirds of U.S. abortions, mifepristone blocks a hormone ...

Mifepristone and misoprostol are the two drugs used in a medication abortion. However, a new study ... [+] shows that ulipristal acetate is combination with misoprostol could also successfully ...

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Emergency contraception pill could be an alternative to mifepristone for abortions, study suggests A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher ...

Judge Kacsmaryk rules in favor of Idaho, Missouri, Kansas FDA have regulatory approval to mifepristone in 2000 ... and that venue disputes could be heard later. The three states are challenging ...