A medication abortion involves taking both mifepristone and misoprostol, but experts say that misoprostol alone is a safe and effective method. (Getty Images ...

Many abortion providers have already been using only misoprostol for medication abortions, including telehealth providers and in other countries, and Melissa Grant, chief operations officer of ...

A patient prepares to take mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa, U.S., January 13, 2023.

Misoprostol is already part of the only medication abortion protocol approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but only when taken in combination with mifepristone.

Ulipristal acetate followed by misoprostol was effective and acceptable for medication abortion up to 63 days’ gestation with no serious adverse events, but more studies are needed, data from a ...

Officials say California currently has more than 250,000 of the pills already on hand, which were purchased for about $100,000. That's enough pills to cover an estimated 12,000 misoprostol-only ...

The Biden administration has made protecting medication abortion—the use of pills to terminate a pregnancy—one of their top priorities. To realize this goal, US health officials, medical ...

In the United States, the so-called abortion pill is actually two medications, mifepristone, sold under the brand names Mifeprex or Korlym, or known as RU-486, and misoprostol, which is taken ...

Misoprostol is already part of the only medication abortion protocol approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but only when taken in combination with mifepristone.