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News Articles: mifepristone

The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn.

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  • National

Trump administration asks court to toss suit restricting access to abortion drug

The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone.

May 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Dr. Marty Makary testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on his nomination to become Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

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  • Health

5 takeaways from the confirmation hearing for Trump's FDA nominee

Dr. Marty Makary, President Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, faced questions from the Senate HELP Committee on the abortion pill, vaccines, FDA firings and chemicals in food.

March 06, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin
“Welcome to modern abortion care,” says Angel Foster, who leads operations at what’s known as<strong> </strong>the MAP, a Massachusetts telehealth provider sending pills to people who live in states that ban or restrict abortion.

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  • National

Inside a medical practice sending abortion pills to states where they're banned

As the number of abortions nationwide grows, pregnant people in states with restrictions and bans are getting pills from out-of-state providers. Some say these providers are breaking the law.

August 07, 2024
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  • Elissa Nadworny
The statue Guardian or Authority of Law sits above the west front plaza of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 7 in Washington, D.C. Among the rulings the court is expected to issue by the end of June are cases about access to abortion pills dispensed by mail, gun restrictions, the power of regulatory agencies and former President Donald Trump’s bid to avoid criminal charges for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

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  • Law

What's next up for the Supreme Court? Abortion rights, gun laws and more

The Supreme Court will be issuing major rulings in the next month. Normally by this point in the term there are between four and six really big cases left. This year, there are over a dozen.

June 11, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Packages of mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Md.

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  • Politics

Why anti-abortion advocates are reviving a 19th century sexual purity law

The Comstock Act is the latest front in the fight over reproductive rights. Here's what you need to know about the 1873 law and the consequences if it's enforced the way some conservatives would like.

April 10, 2024
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16, 2022.

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  • Law

Supreme Court seems doubtful of challenge to abortion pill

At issue in the case is more than abortion rights. It's the entire structure of the FDA's regulatory power to approve drugs and continually evaluate their safety.

March 27, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022.

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  • Health

What's at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case

The case could affect not just abortion access but oversight of the drug industry and the authority of federal agencies. The court hears arguments Tuesday.

March 25, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Pills

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  • Health Care

Who wants the U.S. Supreme Court to limit abortion pill access? Here’s the list.

Anti-abortion groups, attorneys general from 25 states and more than 140 members of Congress have signed on to dozens of briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court during the past two weeks, encouraging the justices to revert use and prescribing of the medication abortion pill mifepristone to what was in place prior to 2016.

March 05, 2024
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  • Jennifer Shutt
Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022.

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  • Health

CVS and Walgreens to start dispensing abortion pill in states where it's legal

CVS will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Walgreens will start in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Illinois.

March 01, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Alina Selyukh
Access to the abortion drug mifepristone could soon be limited by the Supreme Court for the whole country. Here, a nurse practitioner works at an Illinois clinic that offers telehealth abortion.

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  • Health

Abortion pills that patients got via telehealth and the mail are safe, study finds

The study looks at 6,000 patients who got abortion pills after an online appointment. It found that 99.7% of those abortions were not followed by any serious adverse events.

February 15, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
The Supreme Court will hear the case against the abortion pill mifepristone on March 26. It's part of a two-drug regimen with misoprostol for abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.

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  • News

Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted

A research paper that raises questions about the safety of abortion has been retracted. The research is cited in a federal judge's ruling about the abortion pill mifepristone.

February 09, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Mifepristone is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion.

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  • Health

In Washington state, pharmacists are poised to start prescribing abortion drugs

They're pioneering a new model of care that will allow for one-stop, same-day access to mifepristone — no appointment necessary.

January 22, 2024
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  • Patrick Adams
Elizabeth Weller speaks at a press conference in Austin, Texas on July 19. She's one of 20 women suing the state after being denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications.

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  • Health

'Jane Roe' is anonymous no more. The very public fight against abortion bans in 2023

As the first full year since Roe v. Wade was overturned closes, the abortion landscape in the U.S. has changed legally, politically and medically.

December 26, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Sarah McCammon
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court decision that would make mifepristone less accessible.

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  • Law

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case

The court's action sets up a collision between the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year study and supervision of mifepristone, and the circumstances under which it can be prescribed.

December 13, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Annie Gersh
A patient prepares to take mifepristone, for a medication abortion. A federal appeals court ruled to impose new restrictions on the drug Wednesday but the ruling will not take effect until the Supreme Court weighs in.

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  • Health

Ruling deals blow to access to abortion pill mifepristone — but nothing changes yet

A federal appeals court would restrict the use of mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions. But previous action by the Supreme Court means the status quo holds for now.

August 16, 2023
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Diane Webber
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