, potentially limiting access to the medication as it’s become a more prominent abortion method in the wake of the high court overturningThe Supreme Court will hear cases brought by the Food and Drug Administration and mifepristone manufacturer Danco Laboratories over the legality of the abortion pill, both challenging anAnti-abortion rights plaintiffs originally sued to block FDA approval of mifepristone entirely, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals only rolled back updates that made the drug...
That’s the percentage of all abortions in the U.S. that were medication abortions in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available,only 28 deaths have been reported in patients “associated with mifepristone” between September 2000 and June 2022, though it notes it’s not clear if those deaths were actually caused by mifepristone, as they may have been due to other factors.