Showing posts with label abortion pill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abortion pill. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’ - POLITICO
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders...
Friday, June 12, 2026
Hawley pushes Blanche to settle abortion pill case - Live Updates - POLITICO
The administration is not defending the merits of the FDA’s policy allowing telehealth prescription and mail delivery of mifepristone, but the Trump DOJ’s refusal to go all in against the drug has infuriated lawmakers and activists who oppose abortion...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Amid efforts to restrict mifepristone access, here's what studies say about the medication - PolitiFact
Out of about 11,000 medication abortion cases examined in that study, 5.2% had complications, and most were "minor and expected," it said. Major complications occurred in 35 cases, or 0.3%. …
https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/may/26/medication-abortion-mifepristone-safety-studies/
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Anti-abortion activists' frustrations escalate after abortion pill ruling - POLITICO
Abortion opponents are demanding action from the FDA and other federal agencies...
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
Earlier on Thursday, the entire Senate Democratic caucus reintroduced a resolution “affirming that the abortion medication mifepristone is safe and effective”, and underscoring that law and policy related to the medication must be equitable, transparent, and based on the best available peer-reviewed evidence-based science. While not binding, the formal expression of all 45 Democratic senators’ opinion is “notable”.
“Healthcare providers have safely prescribed mifepristone for decades – limiting access to this medication would be another blow to our hard-earned reproductive freedoms. Extremists should never dictate a woman’s right to reproductive care,” wrote Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire senator, on Xabout the resolution...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-upheld
Friday, May 15, 2026
Supreme Court extends order maintaining abortion pill access - POLITICO
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the majority decision...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Supreme Court temporarily extends access to a widely used abortion pill | PBS News
The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect...
Friday, May 8, 2026
They Came for Mifepristone. The Abortion Rights Movement Is Ready. – Mother Jones
It’s an ulcer medication. Anybody who can prescribe medications can prescribe misoprostol, except in Louisiana. The Society of Family Planning and the National Abortion Federation both have a sample protocol for misoprostol-only abortion to help clinicians prescribe…
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Supreme Court gives abortion pill mifepristone a 1-week reprieve from a major change
The appeals court order meant that mifepristone could not be prescribed via telehealth or sent through the mail. Alito's order restores that telehealth access for one week...
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5810510/supreme-court-mifepristone-appeals-telehealth
Monday, May 4, 2026
Abortion pill maker asks US supreme court to halt ban on mail-order access
Danco Laboratories files emergency appeal after lower court blocks telemedicine providers from prescribing…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/02/abortion-pill-emergency-appeal-supreme-court
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Appeals court approves sweeping abortion pill restrictions, teeing up SCOTUS showdown - POLITICO
A panel of three judges ruled unanimously in favor of arguments from Louisiana that the Biden-era regulations on the drug threaten the state’s sovereignty and the safety of pregnant women. Two of the judges were appointed by Donald Trump and the other by George W. Bush...
The temporary ruling will curtail access nationwide to a drug used in more than two-thirds of abortions.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Trump asks federal court to hit pause on abortion pill case, citing ongoing study - POLITICO
The administration argues the lawsuit may be "unnecessary" since the FDA may impose the restrictions Louisiana wants of its own volition...
Friday, December 12, 2025
Texas and Florida sue FDA in latest effort to restrict abortion pill access
"These lawsuits have nothing to do with the safety of this medication and everything to do with making it harder for people to get an abortion," said Julia Kaye, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. "Politicians in Texas and Florida are asking for a nationwide ban on a safe and effective medication that millions of Americans have used since the FDA first approved it 25 years ago."…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/10/texas-florida-sue-fda-abortion-pill-approval
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Anti-abortion groups furious as FDA approves generic abortion pill
To bolster their attack on mifepristone, anti-abortion activists recently seized on an April paper by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a rightwing thinktank, claiming almost 11% of women experience sepsis or other serious complications within 45 days of taking mifepristone. In his letter announcing the review of mifepristone, Kennedy cited the center's paper.
But that paper was not peer-reviewed nor published in a medical journal, and experts have uncovered multiple flaws in it. For example, it counts ectopic pregnancies – wherein an embryo implants somewhere outside of the uterine lining – as a serious complication. Mifepristone does not cause or worsen ectopic pregnancies.
Meanwhile, more than 100 studies, conducted across more than three decades and dozens of countries, have concluded that mifepristone is a safe and effective tool to end a pregnancy...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/generic-abortion-pill-fda-mifepristone
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Abortion drug could help reduce risk of breast cancer, group of medics says
Stigma around mifepristone is stopping studies, experts in reproductive health claim in Lancet opinion piece…
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus
"The study is not peer-reviewed and has not been published in a medical journal, because its authors could not meet the standards that such publication requires: their work is not up to snuff. Dr Stella Dantas, the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, called the paper "seriously flawed" and said that it "manipulates data to drive a myth that medication abortion isn't safe".
The truth is that abortion pills have a lower rate of serious complications than Tylenol…"
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
New York adds protections for doctors who send abortion pills out of state | New York | The Guardian
Democratic governor Kathy Hochul signs law permitting doctors to leave names off prescriptions for abortion pills…
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Emboldened anti-abortion groups create wishlist for second Trump term
'Make America pro-life again' legislation includes banning abortion pills entirely and outlawing telehealth abortions…
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Women stockpile abortion pills before Trump term - The Washington Post
Reproductive-health organizations and companies said demand for "morning after" pills, intrauterine devices and vasectomies has also increased...
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