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Women are now stockpiling abortion pills
Demand for abortion pills made by women who were not yet pregnant spiked during events when reproductive health care access appeared under threat, a study found. The American College of Obstetricians and Surgeons ( ACOG) described mifepristone as “a very safe and effective drug”. However, ACOG said that “people are worried about needing abortion care…
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Some two-thirds of people don’t want to ban medication abortion
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll has found that majorities of Americans oppose laws banning medication-induced abortions, disagree with judges overturning the Food and Drug Administration approval of prescription drugs, and don’t have much confidence in the US Supreme Court. The finding come as the Supreme Court left in place access to the drug mifepristone, used in…
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The Supreme Court does not allow abortion pill access to be denied
The US Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a lower court judge’s order that banned the sale of Mifeprex, the generic form of mifepristone, pending its ruling. Danco Laboratories, manufacturer of Mifeprex, had sued the US Food and Drug Administration after it refused to allow it to manufacture and sell the drug. However, the court stayed…
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The Supreme Court is going to make it easier for women to get the abortion pill
US President Joe Biden has said that he continues to stand by the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve the drug mifepristone, which is used in abortions, for sale. “I will continue to defend FDA’s independent, expert authority to review, approve, and regulate a wide range of prescription drugs,” Biden added.
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The supreme court is considering the abortion pill decision
The US Supreme Court has issued a stay on a lower court’s order to allow mail-delivery of the abortion pill mifepristone in the country. The stay will expire at 11:59 pm EDT today unless it is lifted by the court, which is expected to take up the case on Tuesday. If the stay expires, a…
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The Supreme Court has delayed a decision
The US Supreme Court has asked the government to appeal against a ruling that allowed the sale of anti-Abortion drug mifepristone in the country. The court asked the government to apply for a stay on the ruling until the high court can consider the case. A US appeals court had upheld restrictions on mifepristone that…
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I think Mifepristone saved my life
The US Supreme Court will decide on Monday whether to let a generic form of mifepristone be sold in the country. The court has issued a temporary order to preserve the status quo, ensuringaccess to the drug while giving the justices more time to study the issue. The US Court of Appeals for the FifthCircuit…
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Pro-choice advocates are demonstrating in support of abortion pill access
US Supreme Court’s ruling to block mifepristone’s approval in the US is antithetical to doctors and the abortion-rights fight in the country, Planned Parenthood CEO Laura Meyers said at a rally in Washington DC. “These judges aren’t doctors and neither are they,” Meyers added. The Supreme Court ruled that mifepristone can’t be approved for widespread…
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The abortion drug’s approval was 23 years ago
The US Supreme Court on Friday extended its temporary hold on a lower court ruling that would have restricted access to an abortion drug. The appeals court had upheld a lower court’s ruling that halted the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone and said that it will allow the drug only to be dispensed up…
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Full access to the abortion pill will be asked to the Supreme Court by the Justice Department
The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a judge’s ruling that would have blocked the use of medication abortions. Mifepristone, used in combination with another drug in nearly all medication abortions in the US, was approved by the FDA in 2000. Anti-abortion doctors and plaintiffs had sued the FDA over how the agency changed the…
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The Appeals court can rule in any dispute about the FDA’s suspension of abortion drug approval
The US Food and Drug administration has released proposed rules to protect access to abortion drugs. The administration took similar steps to protect access to abortion after a judge in Texas temporarily suspended the approval of the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. President Joe Biden had asked the administration to ignore the ruling,…
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If the medication abortion case is successful, then it could set up another high-profile Supreme Court ruling
The US Food and Drug Administration has said a judge’s ruling revoking its approval of the abortion pill mifepristone could be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Separately, the pill- manufacturer Danco said the judge’s “relentlessly one-sided narrative” never mentions the millions of women who have benefitted from the…
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The judge’s ruling against the abortion pill was filled with activists’ language
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said a federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the use of the abortion drug mifepristone should be put on hold. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled last week that the FDA had failed to evaluate the drug’s potential harms. Danco, an abortion drug maker, said that Kacsmaryk’s narrative…
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It’s possible to have medication abortion with one drug
The US Food and Drug Administration has appealed a federal court’s ruling suspending the approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone. The court’s ruling comes after a group of anti-abortion organisations and physicians sought to overturn FDA’s approval of the drug in 2000, arguing that the drug is unsafe. It could lead to mifepristone being…
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I worked at F.D.A and the abortion pill decision is dangerous
The US government on Monday asked a federal judge in Texas to delay his order that halted the use of abortion drug misoprostol. The US Food and Drug Administration had approved Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, for use in women’s abortions in the country 23 years ago. However, the judge had said Mifepristone couldn’t be…
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Mifepristone is used for abortion
A US judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot ban the use of the abortion drug mifepristone. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said it’s not clear if a woman would need to have a surgical abortion after taking mifepristone, the second-best-selling abortion drug in the country. The FDA has been criticised for its inaction…
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The Texas judge’s abortion ruling could hurt Republicans
A US judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion-inducing medication mifepristone is invalid. “The court has concluded that the [FDA’s] approval of mifepristone isn’t consistent with the science,” the judge said. The FDA had approved the two-drug regimen to end pregnancies up to 10 weeks gestational age, but the…
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I used to work at the F.D.A. The Abortion Pill decision is dangerous
Texas Republican Representative Tony Gonzales said that his party could use its House Majority to punish the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the agency took such a step. His comment comes after a US federal judge in Texas invalidated the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a medication used safely by hundreds of thousands of women…
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Thomas Owen Rice met the judge who ruled that abortion must be available in some states
The American Medical Association (AMA) said that a ruling by US District Judge Timothy Kacsmaryk threatening to destroy access to abortion drug mifepristone threatens health of the country. “The court’s disregard for well-established scientific facts…in favour of speculative allegations and ideological assertions will cause harm to our patients and undermines the health of the nation,”…
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The Biden administration is being sued over abortion pill rules
Walgreens said it won’t sell the first of two drugs in the abortion process in 20 states. This comes after GOP attorneys general in some states wrote to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking it to revoke its ban on the medication abortion drug mifepristone. The US Supreme Court last year ruled that women…
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The FDA wants to make it easier for patients to get abortion pills
The US Food and Drug Administration has said that misoprostol, the generic version of mifepristone, will remain available in the country under single-Drug Arrangements for Medication Abortions (REDS) programme. The program will allow women in states where abortion is against the law to receive single-Drug Arrangements for Medication Abortions via telemedicine or at a doctor’s…
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Some major drugstores are going to sell abortion pills, but they won’t be in every state.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed the use of misoprostol and mifepristone in telemedicine to reduce the risk of late-stage abortions. However, the FDA said that the drugs are still banned in states where they are restricted or banned by state laws. The FDA said it is looking to expand its REMS…
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The FDA has finalized the expansion of abortion pill availability.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has changed the label on mifepristone, a drug used to terminate pregnancies of up to 10 weeks, to warn patients about the risks of excessive bleeding. It’s now listed as being used to terminate pregnancies between 10 and 20 weeks of pregnancy. In 2012, the US Supreme Court…