Attorneys and scholars disagree on whether a recent ruling that the FDA’s heightened mifepristone regulations don’t override ...

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.

Greer Donley, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, said the ruling could change how states regulate other FDA-approved medication, including vaccines.

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.

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 ...