Abortion Pills – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

27 Oct

Abortion Pill Debate Intensifies As Clinics Close And Centers Expand

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As abortion pills face scrutiny and U.S. pregnancy centers broaden services, advocates and critics clash over access, safety, and the future of women’s health care.

23 Oct

KFF/Washington Post Poll Looks at Parents’ Trust in Children’s Health Content on Social Media, And Unfounded Claims About Abortion Pill Safety Follow FDA Approval of Generic Version

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Children's Health, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Thttps://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/parents-trust-in-childrens-health-content-on-social-media-and-unfounded-claims-about-abortion-pill-safety/he latest release from the KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents, which finds that most parents report seeing children’s health content on social media, but many are unsure how to evaluate the trustworthiness of advice shared by health and wellness influencers. It also reviews misleading claims about the safety of medication abortion following the approval of a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, and it explores reports that federal officials are considering adding autism to the list of conditions covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

16 Oct

Abortion pills are under attack

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Pills, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Trump is targeting medication abortion.

09 Oct

Louisiana sues Food & Drug Administration to stop mailing of abortion medication

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Pills, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Louisiana, Reproductive rights

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed a lawsuit this week that calls on the federal government to strike down rules that allow the distribution of abortion drugs without an in-person doctor’s visit. It’s her latest attempt to place restrictions on out-of-state shipments of mifepristone, a medication that used to terminate pregnancies but that also has other life-saving and gynecological uses.

28 Sep

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

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Access, Abortion Pills, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

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…

10 Sep

Medication abortion ban could achieve a top conservative goal

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

The bill, set to become law later this year, could stop providers from mailing pills to Texas, which has allowed thousands to access abortion since Roe fell. It could be a blueprint for other states.

03 Sep

Bill allowing private citizens to sue over abortion pills gets initial OK in the Texas Senate

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

The Texas Senate on Tuesday evening tentatively approved a bill that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails or provides abortion medication to or from Texas.

28 Aug

Federal Officials Defund Health Imperatives

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Healthcare, Massachusetts, Reproductive rights, United States

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.

21 Aug

Women in states with abortion bans are the biggest users of abortion telemedicine

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As conservative lawmakers work to restrict online access to abortion medication, a new report shows how popular it has become for women who live in states that have outlawed abortion.

19 Aug

Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky gas stations

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, West Virgina

Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few weeks. Mayday Health, a New York-based health education nonprofit, will run the ads at 104 rural gas stations through Sept. 7. The campaign started Aug. 11.

21 Jul

Court Allows West Virginia to Restrict Abortion Pill Mifepristone

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Healthcare, mifepristone, Reproductive rights, West Virgina

A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia can limit access to mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancies.

10 Jul

Ohio judge allows telemedicine abortion care for a third time

JordanLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, mifepristone, Reproductive rights, Telemedicine

An Ohio judge has blocked enforcement of a state law related to medication abortion for the third time, in a new Hamilton County court decision.

23 Jun

States move to keep doctors’ names off of abortion pill prescription labels

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, legislation, mifepristone, Reproductive rights, United States

Doctors are pushing for laws in several states that would make it harder to detect who prescribed abortion pills. They say it would protect them from out-of-state prosecutions.

16 Jun

Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, International, mifipristone, Reproductive rights

As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice are really part of the same fight.

08 Jun

How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Pills, International, Self-managed abortion, Underground network

In November 1990, more than 3,000 women descended on the sleepy beach town of San Bernardo del Tuyú, Argentina, for what was becoming a legendary event.