The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. The central ...
Less than two weeks out from Louisiana reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled dangerous substances, some ...
Louisiana’s top expert on maternal health has come out against a new law that will reclassify common pregnancy medications as ...
A group of Republican-led states have asked the full 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to consider their effort to impose ...
The New Orleans City Council is directing the city’s health department to investigate the impact of a new law about drugs ...
Mifepristone is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end pregnancy up to 10 weeks. In recent years, the FDA has loosened restrictions to allow patients to be assessed via telehealth ...
Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Louisiana is criminalizing the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol, just two years after the Supreme Court ruling to ...
In September 2000, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a medical abortion regimen for women up to 49 days gestation consisting of 600 mg mifepristone (a progesterone ...
Much of the fight is focused on mifepristone, one half of the two-pill regimen that makes up the safest and most effective mode of medication abortion. In June, the Supreme Court blocked an effort ...
Doctors and local elected officials alike vehemently decried a new Louisiana law that will reclassify pregnancy care drugs as ...