The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in a 2-1 vote that West Virginia can restrict access to the ...

The Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is promising a full agency review of the safety of chemical abortion drug mifepristone after a new study raised concerns about its effects.

How does medication abortion work? Medication abortion has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration since 2000 and is currently cleared to end a pregnancy through 10 weeks of gestation.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the FDA "to review the latest data on mifepristone ," but experts say concerns about the abortion pill's safety are misguided.

The FDA-approved abortion pill mifepristone is under scrutiny as the new Republican administration takes charge ...

Mifepristone, one of the drugs in a medication abortion, blocks the hormone progesterone, which is needed for a pregnancy to continue.

How does medication abortion work? Medication abortion has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration since 2000 and is currently cleared to end a pregnancy through 10 weeks of gestation.

Deaths after medication abortion are very rare too, Grossman noted: There were 32 reported among people using mifepristone between 2000 and 2022, a time when approximately 5.9 million women used ...