This month marked three years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had given Americans legal access to abortions for 50 years. Today, we have the backstory of a drug that ...

With scrutiny mounting over the risksof the abortion drug mifepristone, the abortion industry is increasingly pivoting to an alternative: misoprostol-only abortion. This shift is being framed as a ...

That’s because misoprostol has been used for decades for a bunch of different things, says Dr. Perritt, like managing pregnancy loss, inducing labor, and treating certain types of ulcers. So even if ...

March 8, 2012 — Cervical preparation with the prostaglandin analogue misoprostol before abortion by vacuum aspiration reduced abortion complications compared with placebo in the largest trial yet of ...

In Sweden, abortion pills are used to terminate pregnancies through 22 weeks gestation, compared to just 10 weeks in the United States. The entrance to the Kiruna hospital in Kiruna, Sweden. Here, the ...

Legislation increasing the accessibility of mifepristone and misoprostol, used for abortion and to manage miscarriages, advanced out of the Washington Senate Feb. 10. Senate Bill 5917 is a follow-up ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A legal challenge against a first-of-its-kind measure that recategorized two widely used abortion -inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances” in Louisiana can move forward, ...