The debate over abortion access is set to be one of the hot topic issues of the 2024 election, with Kamala Harris accusing ...

A key issue in the hearing has been whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would increase scrutiny of the abortion drug mifepristone if he becomes HHS secretary. The drug is part of a two-step process that ...

Although it's been prescribed for over two decades, mifepristone, or Mifeprex, is still steeped in controversy. Mifepristone (nicknamed the "abortion pill") is often the focal point of many ...

Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa, N.M., Jan. 13, 2023.

Texas lawmakers are gearing up to pass first-of-its kind legislation increasing penalties for mailing abortion medication ...

Mifepristone is used with another drug, misoprostol, for medication abortion in the United States. Misoprostol is available by prescription in most pharmacies, according to the American College of ...

A conservative panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said that the judge was wrong in stopping all use of mifepristone after it had been on the market for 23 years, but the appellate ...

When mifepristone was approved in 2000, it was limited in use to up to seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required three in-person visits and a doctor's supervision.

In actuality, mifepristone is safer than Tylenol, and it has been used without adverse effects by millions of people around the world. It has also been on the market for 23 years.

Mifepristone, "to kill the unborn human, followed by misoprostol to induce cramping and contractions to expel the unborn human from the mother's womb." There is many things that are scientifically ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone as part of a two-drug protocol to induce abortions in 2000. In 2016, the FDA made the drug more easily available, saying it could be used ...

The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the U.S., for now. NPR's Adrian Florido talks to Julie Rovner of KFF Health News. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the FDA-approved abortion ...