Pro-choice advocates say the science is settled on the abortion pill mifepristone, but critics argue that better safeguards ...

A clinical trial comparing a one-page medication handout proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with an ...

A recent lightning rod for abortion opponents, the drug mifepristone—the first of two in the standard medication abortion ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several disturbing comments during his first Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday suggesting that ...

A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday for prescribing an abortion pill ...

A new study shows a possible new abortion drug to replace mifepristone. But will these results increase abortion access—or restrict women's reproductive health options down the line?

The anti-abortion movement has launched a pressure campaign urging President Donald Trump’s administration to take steps ...

Last Friday, my colleague Julianne McShane and I broke the news of a pair of letters sent by 30 prominent anti-abortion ...

President Donald Trump issued executive orders late Friday reviving some of his first term’s anti-abortion policies, like ...

First, let’s break down how we ended up here. The FDA approved mifepristone for medication abortion in September 2000, but people who were prescribed the drug could only get it by going to an ...