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10 years ago, #mifepristone was approved for use in Canada, significantly changing the landscape of abortion access.
Attacks on mifepristone in the U.S. fuel dangerous misinformation + stigma around medication abortion.
With the facts, we can dispel myths + equip folks to make informed decisions about their bodies! 
Check out our position paper on Medication Abortion:
https://www.arcc-cdac.ca/media/position-papers/28-Medication-Abortion.pdf
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.socialA North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills.
Texas capital murder case aims to severely punish abortion pill use by treating a fetus as a person
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7/5/2331145/-Texas-capital-murder-case-aims-to-severely-punish-abortion-pill-use-by-treating-a-fetus-as-a-person
#Abortion #AbortionRights #WomensRights #Texas #Mifepristone #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
A North Texas man charged with capital murder after…
Daily Kos@vagina_museum In American courts, this is known as #Standing You must have "sufficient connection to and harm from the law" [1].
You can't sue if you can't prove you were or will be harmed by the law. This is what made #SCOTUS toss out the case against #Mifepristone last year, as the plaintiffs couldn't show direct harm from the law [2].
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#Source :
1) https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Standing
2) https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4703010-supreme-court-upholds-access-abortion-drug-mifepristone/
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Standing, or locus standi, is the capacity of a party to…
www.law.cornell.edu#TheGremlinZoo #HHS #FDA #Mifepristone
From CBS News.com: FDA to "review the latest data" on mifepristone. What could it mean for access to the abortion pill?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-review-mifepristone-abortion-pill-access/
)}] @dec23k@mastodon.ie"Baulieu's most well-known discovery helped create the oral drug RU-486, also known as mifepristone, which provided a safe and inexpensive alternative to surgical abortion to millions of women across the world."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2025/05/30/etienne-emile-baulieu-father-of-the-abortion-pill-dies-at-98_6741841_15.html
A doctor and researcher, Etienne-Emile Baulieu was…
Le MondeThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said on Wednesday that he had directed the FDA to review the regulations around the abortion pill #mifepristone.
The review, he said, was necessary due to “new data”
– data that emerged from a flawed analysis that top US anti-abortion groups are now using to pressure the Trump administration to reimpose restrictions on the abortion pill,
- if not pull it from the market entirely.
The analysis, which has not been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal,
came after the Food and Drug Administration commissioner said he was open to reviewing new safety data on the pills, which are used in nearly two-thirds of abortions nationwide.
The conservative organizations are rallying behind a paper published on April 28 by a rightwing thinktank, the "Ethics and Public Policy Center",
which claims there are higher complication rates from taking mifepristone than previously known.
The paper has attracted scrutiny for appearing to dramatically overstate what it characterizes as “serious adverse effects” associated with the pill, according to medical experts.
For example, it counts ectopic pregnancies – when an embryo implants somewhere other than the uterine lining – as a serious complication.
Mifepristone does not cause an ectopic pregnancy
and taking it will not harm someone with an ectopic.
It also claims that needing an
in-clinic procedure to complete the abortion is a complication,
when patients are counseled in advance about the pills’ failure rate of about 3 to 4%.
The data, the authors say, means the FDA should reinstate earlier restrictions on mifepristone,
including a ban on telemedicine and limiting use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy – but they do not intend to stop there.
The authors note that restoring the limits could lead to better monitoring that could help “determine whether this drug should remain on the market”,
statements that echo proposals found in Project 2025, the 900-page playbook published by the Heritage Foundation and for which the EPPC was an advisory board member.
Project 2025 calls to end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills
as an “interim step” to revoking mifepristone’s approval altogether.
More than 100 scientific studies have found the medications cited in the paper are safe and effective for ending a pregnancy.
Telehealth, plus blue-state “shield laws”, have enabled thousands of people living in states where abortion is banned to continue to access mifepristone and misoprostol,
which frustrates abortion opponents.
One in five abortions nationwide are done via telemedicine,
and in spring 2024, mail providers facilitated more than 7,700 abortions per month in states with total or six-week abortion bans.
Anti-abortion leaders said during a private Zoom call that they intend to use the EPPC paper to pressure the FDA and lawmakers to dramatically roll back access to the drug,
“if not suspend” their approval entirely, Politico reported.
It is part of a plan they are privately calling “Rolling Thunder”.
Activists on that call
– which included representatives from Americans United for Life,
Live Action, Students for Life,
and Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America
– stressed that they viewed ending telemedicine prescriptions only as a “first step”.
According to the Politico report, the EPPC president, Ryan Anderson, argued on the call that
this plan aligns with Donald Trump’s stated desire to leave abortion policy to the states
because, he said, “you’re not leaving it to states if California can mail pills to Texas”.
Activists tried to push back on criticism that the paper was not peer-reviewed by arguing that academia is “broken”
and they could not trust journals or reviewers not to “sabotage” their effort or leak it to the press.
Politico reported that one medical professional on the call,
Christina Francis, the CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs,
warned her colleagues not to misrepresent the paper, acknowledging that the report was “not a study in the traditional sense”
and “not conclusive proof of anything”.
Still, Francis argued that it warranted government action and more research.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/rfk-jr-fda-abortion-pill-mifepristone?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Health secretary cites ‘new data’ that emerged from…
The Guardian@MicheleV_AK I’m not sure of the timing but I think the current admin is also trying to ‘prove’ the medication is unsafe. (Which it isn’t)
So while they will boast that they aren’t ‘banning abortion,’ at the same time they will say they need to ‘protect women’ from the ‘dangerous’ medication.
The #Trump admin on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to sharply restrict access to the #abortion pill #mifepristone — taking the same position as the #Biden admin in a case that has major implications for abortion #access.
The filing by the #DOJ is odd, given that Trump & a number of his ofcls oppose #AbortionRights — maybe they made an error? Trump often brags that he appointed 3 of the #SCOTUS justices who overturned #RoevWade.
#law
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.247.0_2.pdf
Another set of recent articles about #Texas HB 3817 that makes it a felony to be trans and deal with the government or your employer.
This is a bill written by Oliverson who has also targeted #mifepristone and #lgbtq people in the military as well in other bills.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5189226-texas-bill-transgender-rights-trump/
CDC Pick Dave Weldon’s Views On Reproduction And End-Of-Life Raise Alarm via @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2025/03/11/cdc-pick-dave-weldons-views-on-reproduction-and-end-of-life-raise-alarm/ #women #pregnancy #reproduction #mifepristone #LivingWill #Weldon
A Texas judge ruled that a New York doctor must stop providing abortion care to people in Texas via telemedicine — the latest development in an overarching battle between conflicting laws in number of U.S. states.
#HealthScience #News #Abortion #KUT #Mifepristone #WomensHealth
How to Get and Abet an Abortion:
Everything You Need to Know to Help Yourself or a Friend, No Matter Where You Live in America - advice from writers at the @thestranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/02/03/79904283/how-to-get-and-abet-an-abortion
#Abortion #Healthcare #AbortionRights #Abortionpill #Mifepristone #misoprostol #Pregnancy #Medicaid #ComstockAct
Women will save other women because we are the actual protectors. Always.
“Going forward when another doctor prescribes another FDA-approved drug like #mifepristone to terminate a pregnancy—they’re simply going to have the name of the health care company on the label, rather than the name of the provider.”
https://jessica.substack.com/p/finally-good-news-ny-enacts-new-protections
2.3.25
Abortion, Every Dayhttps://www.europesays.com/1812597/ Louisiana mother, New York doctor indicted for allegedly giving minor abortion pills • Louisiana Illuminator #abortion #AbortionMedication #america #LizMurrill #mifepristone #TonyClayton #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews
Sen #SteveDaines, Republican of Montana, brought up the #abortion pill #mifepristone. He echoes claims by #abortion opponents who are suing the #FDA to roll back #regulations that greatly expanded access to the drug. He asks #RFKJr what he will do about mifepristone. Kennedy hedges, saying “President Trump has asked me to study the safety of mifepristone. He has not yet taken a stand on how to regulate it. Whatever he does, I will implement those policies.”
Senator #RonWyden brings up #RFKJr’s 2023 remark about pausing #infectious #disease #research for EIGHT YEARS, calling it”gobsmacking.” He also raises the specter of a #NationalAbortionBan should Kennedy decide to limit or bar access to the #abortion pill, #mifepristone.
Senator Wyden underscored Kennedy’s shifting positions, saying “When he’s taken every side of every issue, how can the American people believe that he has anything to say?”
letter to #DoJ takes aim at the distribution of #mifepristone by mail. The #FDA has allowed providers to mail mifepristone to patients since 2021…But the letter, addressed to #actingAG James McHenry, asks him to take “immediate action” to implement the #ComstockAct, the 19th-century anti-obscenity law that made it a crime to mail “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing #abortion.”
If they succeed, the moves could amount to a national…
Mother JonesThe Texas judge who previously halted approval of the nation’s most common method of abortion ruled that some states can move ahead with attempts to roll back federal rules and make it harder for people across the U.S. to access the abortion drug mifepristone.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #News #AbortionPill #Health #Mifepristone #TexasJudges
Idaho, Kansas and Missouri requested late last year…
Houston Public MediaBreaking: Judge who wanted to #ban #mifepristone refuses to dismiss case
Despite SCOTUS's ruling that the original plaintiffs lacked standing,
Judge Matthew #Kacsmaryk is allowing three non-Texas states to keep the lawsuit going in his court.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-who-wanted-to-ban
Despite SCOTUS's ruling that the original plaintiffs…
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