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.

Studies have repeatedly shown that a lower dose of mifepristone can act as an effective emergency contraceptive when taken soon after unprotected sex, with few side effects. It’s sold that way ...

An emergency contraception pill could be repurposed as an abortion drug and possibly be an alternative to mifepristone, a new study suggests Mifepristone blocks a hormone needed to sustain a ...

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 ...

Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has rejected proposals that would have allowed Connecticut to stockpile mifepristone, a drug used to end pregnancies, according to a state legislator.

Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Louisiana is criminalizing the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol, just two years after the Supreme Court ruling to ...

Previously, Kacsmaryk sided with a group of anti-abortion doctors and organizations that wanted the FDA to be forced to rescind entirely its approval of mifepristone in 2000. The Supreme Court ...

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 ...

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 ...