Why the Abortion Pill Mifepristone Is Under Renewed Scrutiny in the US

Study refutes Planned Parenthood's claim that abortion pill is 'safer than Tylenol'

Pro-choice advocates often say the abortion pill is "safer than Tylenol," but a newly released study disputes the claim, arguing that no such research exists and that comparing the two drugs is scientifically pointless.

Abortifacient company wants to use convenience stores to spread ‘morning after pills’ in pro-life states

The company that sells the abortifacient ‘morning after pill’ is partnering with Lil' Drug Store Products, a top convenience store supplier, to get their pill in 11,000 locations across 48 states.

Why the Abortion Pill Mifepristone Is Under Renewed Scrutiny in the US

Since the US Supreme Court in 2022 overturned its Roe v. Wade decision establishing a nationwide right to an abortion, the fight over the intervention has focused largely on a pill that ends pregnancies: mifepristone. The court in June 2024 preserved the current level of access to medication abortion, the most common way to terminate a pregnancy in the country. Still, many states limit access to mifepristone, efforts continue to curtail it furth…

Trump Admin Efforts to Limit Abortion Pill Could Save Countless Babies

Pro-Life advocates were caught off guard earlier this month. The Trump administration asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit that aimed to take FDA approval away from a commonly used abortion pill—mifepristone. For many, this raised red flags. Was Trump backing away from regulating abortion pills—or worse, from the Pro-Life cause entirely? But in the days that followed, both Donald Trump and RFK Jr. made moves that could tell a different story. Th…

Abortion providers challenge FDA’s remaining mifepristone restrictions in federal court • Source New Mexico

“We just want to ensure that the most popular method for abortion in Virginia and beyond is protected no matter who sits at the White House and who sits in the FDA,” said Whole Woman’s Health founder and president Amy Hagstrom Miller outside of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Abortion pills — and quest…

The Origins and Proliferation of Unfounded Comparisons Regarding the Safety of Mifepristone - Lozier Institute

Abstract As part of the substantial public discourse surrounding the distribution and use of mifepristone, which is used with misoprostol to facilitate drug-induced abortions, claims comparing the safety of this regimen to that of common pharmaceuticals have emerged and proliferated. Offered in forums ranging from social media to the Supreme Court, these claims have so […] The post The Origins and Proliferation of Unfounded Comparisons Regarding…