We take no position on the wisdom or folly of West Virginia’s abortion law," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote for the 2-1 ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia can limit access to mifepristone, a medication used to end early ...

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.

The US Food and Drug Administration held off a legal challenge from a coalition of blue states over the abortion pill, ...

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 ...