Here’s what to know about the abortion pill mifepristone and its imperiled legal status
n Apr. 7, just before the holiday weekend, a federal judge in Texas delivered a long-awaited ruling with an unprecedented conclusion: that mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions performed in the U.S., had not been properly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 23 years ago. The temporary withdrawal of the drug, expected to go into effect on Apr.
Currently, mifepristone is the only drug approved by the FDA for use in abortion. Changes made by the Biden Administration in recent years have attempted to expand access to the medication, but the recent lawsuit, filed by the anti-abortion physician’s group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine in Nov. 2022, seeks to do the opposite.
For a shorter term solution, some Democratic states are preparing by stockpiling mifepristone pills in case it’s taken off the market immediately. Bloomberg Law reported on Apr. 10 that Massachusetts will stockpileIt is possible to have a medication abortion using only misoprostol. “Some providers are prepared to switch to a misoprostol-only regimen,” said Jenny Ma, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights on an Apr. 10 press call.
Though two-pill medication abortion is the preferred method, misoprostol-only abortions have been found to be
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