C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General under President Ronald Reagan, was a controversial figure from the moment of his ...

While Republican state-led efforts aim to increase restrictions to abortion care and access to mifepristone and misoprostol ...

Another bill would require medical facilities to post signs detailing the risks associated with medication abortions and how to reverse it.

New York’s shield law was designed to protect providers mailing medication abortion pills out of state. But a New York ...

New York enacted its telehealth abortion shield law in 2023, one year after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The law bans local ...

Republicans in North Dakota proposed a bill that would make taking medications to induce an abortion a criminal offense.

The ruling against a New York doctor who mailed pills to a Texas woman could have major implications for abortion pill access ...

A medical abortion consists of taking the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol a day or two apart to end early pregnancy. "Mifepristone plus misoprostol is 95 to 98% effective at ending a pregnancy ...

Mifepristone and misoprostol are the two drugs used in a medication abortion. However, a new study ... [+] shows that ulipristal acetate is combination with misoprostol could also successfully ...

ALBANY – Doctors who prescribe abortion pills could request to have their identities kept off the medication bottles under a bill that has passed both houses of the State Legislature. The ...

Now used in two-thirds of U.S. abortions, mifepristone blocks a hormone needed to sustain a pregnancy. It's typically used with misoprostol, which causes contractions and bleeding. In the study, 133 ...