Abortion

Key Takeaways From Supreme Court Arguments on Abortion Pill Access

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed inclined on Tuesday to reject a bid to sharply limit access to abortion pills. During about 90 minutes of argument, most of the justices seemed doubtful that the plaintiffs, who do not prescribe abortion pills or regularly treat abortion patients, even had standing to bring the challenge. The …

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Abortion Restrictions Hurt Women’s Mental Health

Abortion restrictions affect women’s health in more ways than one. According to a new study published in JAMA, simply living in a state that limits access to abortion is linked to worsened symptoms of anxiety and depression in women of childbearing age. To find this pattern, a team at Johns Hopkins University analyzed responses from …

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Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill for Now

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They are appealing a lower court ruling that …

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Supreme Court Expected to Decide on Abortion Pill Access: What to Know

WASHINGTON — The future of a commonly used abortion pill is at the center of a pitched legal battle before the Supreme Court, which is poised for the second time in a year to consider a major effort to severely limit access to abortion. The court is expected to decide by Friday night whether to …

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Hear From the FDA Commissioner Who Approved Abortion Pill

When former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Jane Henney approved the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000, she knew the decision was an important one for women’s health. It would also become incredibly contentious. Henney, now 76, finds herself still defending that approval more than two decades later in 2023. She talked to …

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Health Secretary Slams Abortion Pill Ruling as ‘Not America’

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortionwas “not America” and he did not rule out defying the judge’s order if necessary. “We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s health secretary, told …

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Are Abortion Pills Safe? Here’s the Evidence.

More than 100 scientific studies, spanning continents and decades, have examined the effectiveness and safety of mifepristone and misoprostol, the abortion pills that are commonly used in the United States. All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy. Small icons of scientific papers are lined up in a grid, each …

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Abortion Clinic Closures Double After End of Roe v. Wade

Twice as many abortion clinics closed this year compared to last, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. As of November, 42 independent clinics had closed this year, most of which were in the South and Midwest. That’s up from 20 in 2021, according to a Tuesday report from Abortion Care Network, …

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Study: Telemedicine abortion requests spiked after Dobbs decision

Requests for abortion medications provided through telemedicine surged in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, according to an analysis published in JAMA.  The study followed anonymous requests to self-manage abortions received through Aid Access, a nonprofit that mails the pills mifepristone and misoprostol to patients in the U.S. and …

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What It Costs to Get an Abortion Now

Charts of costs for three abortion patients, in which the cost of the procedure and other expenses including travel and lodging amount to as much as $4,884. Abortion Expenses for Patient A Idaho → Washington Notes: Early second trimester. Traveling with spouse and two children. Procedure Other expenses Travel Hotel Food, child care, misc. …

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