Abortion Pills

28 Sep

Celebrating mifepristone, a hero in modern abortion access, on its 25th anniversary in the U.S.

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When the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone, the abortion pill, on Sept. 28, 2000, none of us working on expanding access to reproductive health care could have imagined the future we find ourselves in 25 years later. From the fall of Roe in 2022 and the subsequent banning or restriction of abortion in 19 states, to South Carolina’s recent efforts to include some forms of birth control in its total abortion ban, access to the basic medical care and medications that allow us to control our reproductive destinies is hanging by a thread. In the midst of this reproductive health care…
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28 Aug

Federal Officials Defund Health Imperatives

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For 15 years, despite patients’ right to abortion care in Massachusetts, it was impossible to get an abortion on Cape Cod. Then, in 2023, Health Imperatives, a nonprofit sexual and family health organization, opened a clinic in Hyannis. Although surgical abortion procedures are not offered at the clinic, it made medication abortions in the early weeks of a pregnancy an option for Cape Cod patients.
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04 Feb

N.Y. moves to shield abortion medication prescriptions after Louisiana indicts doctor

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“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.  The new law, which took effect immediately, allows doctors to request for their names to be left off abortion pill bottles and instead list the name of their health-care practices on medication labels….”
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02 Feb

New York doctor faces criminal charges for prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana patient

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"A Louisiana grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a minor patient in the southern state, in what appears to be the first criminal case against an abortion provider since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter and her company Nightingale Medical have been charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, The Associated Press reported. The patient’s mother, who prosecutors say ordered the pills online for her daughter, has also been charged with the same felony crime, according to the AP...."
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18 Jan

Study shows growing support nationwide for expanded access to abortion pills

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"Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to allow states to regulate abortion access, support for expanded access to abortion pills has significantly increased, including among those living in states with abortion bans, according to a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association. A sample of more than 7,000 women nationwide between the ages of 15 and 49 answered surveys in December 2021 prior to the Dobbs decision, and a random sampling of half the same population was surveyed again in June 2023 after the decision. The surveys gauged support for two models of expanded access to…
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16 Jan

Telehealth abortion reduces shame and lifts barriers, study shows

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Taking abortion pills at home helps reduce stigma associated with pregnancy termination, according to recent findings. “It’s intuitive to understand that people are afraid of protesters outside of abortion clinics. But I was surprised that some people would be afraid to be perceived as abortion patients,” said Andréa Becker, co-author of the study, a reproductive health researcher and a sociology professor at Hunter College in New York City.
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