What the Abortion-Pill Battle Is Really About

2024-03-24    

Most commonly, mifepristone (also called RU-486, the abortion pill) is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, which helps to complete the process. Until 2016, the F.D.A. had approved mifepristone’s use only up to the seventh week of pregnancy; that was expanded to ten weeks. At the same time, the F.D.A. reduced the number of clinical visits required for a medical abortion from three to one, and allowed licensed medical professionals who are not doctors, such as nurse practitioners, to prescribe abortion pills. (States can write stricter rules.) In 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, the F.D.A. began permitting the clinical visit to take place via telemedicine, and pharmacies to deliver the pills by mail.

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