A paramedic who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug, killing their unborn child, has been jailed for ten and a ...

A PARAMEDIC who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug killing her unborn child has been jailed for 10 and a half ...

A paramedic who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug killing her unborn child has been jailed for a 10 and a half ...

A paramedic who secretly gave a pregnant woman an abortion drug killing her unborn child has been jailed for a 10-and-a-half ...

Misoprostol (Cytotec) is safe and effective for induction of labor, although it is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pregnancy. In August 2000, the manufacturer of ...

The FDA first approved of the use of mifepristone and misoprostol for an abortion in 2000. Unlike surgical abortions, medication abortions do not need to take place in a clinical setting, and ...

Mifepristone has been used along with another drug — misoprostol — to end early pregnancies in about 7.5 million women since it was approved by the FDA in 2000. About 57% of abortions in New ...

FDA chief Marty Makary just committed to me to do a full review of the chemical abortion drug’s safety: “As Commissioner of Food and Drugs, I am committed to conducting a review of ...

Many conservatives want the FDA to impose tighter restrictions on mifepristone and misoprostol, which can be delivered by mail. The medication accounted for 63 percent of U.S. abortions in 2023 ...

Clinics and doctors that prescribe the two-drug combination have said that if mifepristone were pulled from the market, they would switch to using only the second drug, misoprostol.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the New Orleans Health Department, about a new map created to help patients find the restricted reproductive health drug misoprostol.