The abortion pill is a combination of two drugs that can end a pregnancy. It is not a single pill — rather, it involves two medications: mifepristone and misoprostol. It is a safe and effective ...

The abortion pill is a nonsurgical option to end a pregnancy. Cramping and bleeding are signs that can mean the abortion was successful. Further tests can confirm whether the abortion pill worked. The ...

If clinics that provide abortion shut down, women who can't travel to other states may turn to telehealth prescriptions or underground networks to obtain abortion pills, making that method of ending a ...

Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. These involve taking two prescription medicines days apart — at ...

In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, 13 states have total abortion bans and most others have ...

In November 2022, a group of anti-abortion doctors and a dentist filed a lawsuit in Amarillo, Texas, challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in ...

Mifepristone, one of the two common abortion pills used in the U.S., will go in front of the Supreme Court next year. Here's a closer look at how it works ...

This story is an accompaniment to a three-part podcast series released by NPR's Embedded and Futuro Media. You can listen to the full series here or wherever you listen to podcasts. In November 1990, ...

If you’d asked the student leaders of Planned Parenthood Gen Action, an activist group at the University of Illinois’ flagship Urbana-Champaign campus, if they could have imagined their movement ...