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.

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.

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

Walgreens and CVS say they plan to start selling the abortion pill mifepristone after the FDA updated its rules on where patients can buy the pill.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.