While the fate of mifepristone, also known as the abortion pill, plays out in US courts, health-care providers have another drug they can continue to use to offer medication abortion. Misoprostol ...

A group of 53 biotech leaders are expressing their support for mifepristone in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the FDA "to review the latest data on mifepristone​," but experts say concerns ...

As of Oct. 1, anyone caught with mifepristone or misoprostol without a valid license could face up to 10 years in prison. But pregnant women are exempt from any criminal penalties.

A growing body of research demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed abortion with pills, coupled with the ...

The drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, are used in medication abortion to end a pregnancy, which is why they are singled out in the law. However, ...

(The Center Square) – On the three-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, dozens of state ...

Louisiana healthcare workers and advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a recently passed state law re-classifying two drugs used in medication abortions — mifepristone and misoprostol ...

Plaintiffs argued the statute would indirectly ban abortion medications by threatening providers with disciplinary action for ...

Misoprostol and mifepristone do not have potential for addiction or abuse, and are safe and effective forms of treatment for miscarriage management and medication abortion.

Under the current law, a prescription from a licensed provider is needed to access both mifepristone and misoprostol. Anyone ...