A group of 53 biotech leaders are expressing their support for mifepristone in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, ...

The medication abortion process starts when a person takes the first pill, mifepristone. Between 24 and 48 hours after, the person takes misoprostol, which typically comes in four tablets.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the FDA "to review the latest data on mifepristone​," but experts say concerns ...

It's called Mifeprex or mifepristone – but many know it as "the abortion pill." It is one of two drugs – along with misoprostol – that are used in at least 63% of abortions in the U.S. now.

Abortion clinics are preparing to use a single pill for medication abortions instead of two. It could take the FDA several years to re-approve mifepristone. IE 11 is not supported.

In her new book, Access, Rebecca Grant chronicles activists' decades-long fight to defy abortion restrictions—including the ...

A self-managed medication abortion can be safe even when you get pills online and never see a doctor for a pelvic exam or ultrasound. A study published in 2024 of more than 6,000 people who ...

Pro-choice advocates say the science is settled on the abortion pill mifepristone, but critics argue that better safeguards need to be in place after the FDA relaxed them in recent years.

Mifepristone is the first pill in the typical two-drug medication abortion regimen. A study found a potential substitute for mifepristone, which has been targeted by abortion opponents.

The abortion pill mifepristone "is not safe and effective," argue the authors of a new study that uses insurance claim data to examine adverse reactions to the pill. They claim to have found a ...

The Abortion Pill’s Secret Money Men ... Hawkins also pledged up to $13.7 million to buy up shares ditched by other investors, ... the commercial name for Danco’s mifepristone pill.

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022.