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Washington (AFP) - A widely used pill is at the center of the latest legal battle in America's ongoing debate over abortion. The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about restrictions placed by a lower court on mifepristone, which is used for medication abortions. Here is background on the drug and its use: How widespread is abortion pill use?According to the Guttmacher Institute, the pill accounted for 63 percent of the abortions in the United States last year, up from 53 percent in 2020. While the number of medication abortions has gone up dramatically in the United States in recent ...
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Washington (AFP) - America's two biggest pharmacy chains said Friday they will begin dispensing prescription abortion pills in a limited number of states where it's legal. The move greatly broadens availability of mifepristone, even as a legal case over whether the drug was properly approved two decades ago now rests before the Supreme Court. A CVS spokesperson told AFP: "We'll begin filling prescriptions for the medication in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the weeks ahead and will expand to additional states, where allowed by law, on a rolling basis." Walgreens "expects to begin dispensing...
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Washington (AFP) - A widely used abortion pill is at the center of the latest legal battle in America's ongoing debate over abortion. The US Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it would weigh in on restrictions imposed by a lower court on the drug mifepristone. Here is the background on the drug and its use: How widespread is abortion pill use?According to the Guttmacher Institute, the pill accounted for more than half -- 53 percent -- of the 930,160 abortions documented by the reproductive health research and policy organization in the United States in 2020. While the number of so-called med...
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Washington (AFP) - A US panel of health experts voted Wednesday in favor of making birth control pills available without a prescription, a move backed by reproductive rights advocates especially in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling overturning the national right to abortion. The independent panel voted unanimously that the benefits of allowing the medicine, Opill, to be sold over the counter, outweighed the risks and would reduce hurdles associated with visiting a doctor that impact lower income groups disproportionately. "I believe that the efficacy and safety of this birth control form was ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court has weighed in on the legal battle over an abortion pill that accounts for more than half of the abortions in the United States, freezing restrictions imposed on the drug by an appeals court. Here is background on the drug, mifepristone, and its use: How widespread is abortion pill use?According to the Guttmacher Institute, the pill accounted for more than half -- 53 percent -- of the 930,160 abortions documented by the reproductive health research and policy organization in the United States in 2020. That was up from 17 percent in 2008 and 39 percent i...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department urged an appeals court on Monday to freeze a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that would ban a widely used abortion pill in a far-reaching case that looks likely to wind up at the Supreme Court. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former Republican president Donald Trump, on Friday overturned the Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of mifepristone, which is used for more than half the abortions carried out annually in the United States. "The district court's extraordinary and unprecedented order should be stayed pending app...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department asked an appeals court on Monday to freeze a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that would ban a widely used abortion pill. "The district court's extraordinary and unprecedented order should be stayed pending appeal," the department said in a court filing. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former president Donald Trump, on Friday overturned the Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of mifepristone, which is used for more than half the abortions annually in the United States. "If allowed to take effect, the court's order would...
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Washington (AFP) - Conflicting rulings by two federal judges have left the future of abortion pills in the United States deeply uncertain, likely placing the divisive issue squarely in the lap of the Supreme Court. A ruling Friday by federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas banned the widely used drug mifepristone (RU 486) nationwide, boosting conservatives' efforts to further restrict abortion rights after the Supreme Court last year allowed states to prohibit them. The unprecedented rejection of a drug approved in 2000 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- and found safe by scient...
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Washington (AFP) - A federal judge in Texas overturned the two-decade-old approval of a safe and effective abortion pill on Friday, the latest volley in a conservative battle against reproductive rights in the United States. If it stands, the ruling by a Donald Trump appointee would reverse permission granted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a drug widely used to terminate unwanted pregnancies. The FDA and the Justice Department both filed appeals against the decision on Friday, with President Joe Biden pledging to "fight this ruling". "The lawsuit, and this ruling, is another unp...
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Washington (AFP) - Federal judges in Texas and Washington on Friday issued dueling rulings that intensified the legal battle over abortion and a commonly used medical abortion drug. The legal battle over the pill mifepristone has grown more intense since the US Supreme Court last year tossed out the federal right to the procedure. The abortion pill was at the center of two conflicting federal court rulings on Friday. In one ruling, a federal judge in Texas halted Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill, pending a seven-day window to give the Justice Department time to appeal...
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