Idaho, Kansas and Missouri want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for ...

A higher dose of an emergency-contraception drug may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.

Mifepristone has been under attack by abortion opponents, with several states seeking in federal court to restrict its use.

The research could further complicate the polarized politics of abortion because the drug in the study is the key ingredient in a pill used for emergency contraception.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is ripping up legal procedure, the better to keep a high-profile abortion case in his ...

Several states, including Massachusetts, began stockpiling the drug after a federal court ruling in Texas blocked the FDA’s ...

The federal judge who paved a path for abortion drug clearance to reach the Supreme Court has allowed red states to revive the legal battle against mifepristone. The case, originally brought by ...

The three states argue that the FDA's approval of mifepristone for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, along with its availability via telemedicine and mail, has contributed to what they view as a public ...

Last June, the Supreme Court found that the anti-abortion doctors aiming to make abortion drug mifepristone less accessible lacked standing, and unanimously shot down the case. Experts expected ...

The states want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone and require that it be used only in the first seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the ...

Since its approval in France in 1988, the abortifacient mifepristone (RU486) has proven to be a safe, effective, acceptable option for millions of women seeking abortion during the first several ...

Mifepristone is usually used in combination with a second drug for medication abortion, which has accounted for more than three-fifths of all abortions in the U.S. since the Supreme Court’s ...