Photo credit: Melisa Slep By Rishita Nandagiri and Lucía Berro Pizzarossa Discussions about abortion tend to be dominated by considerations pertaining to medicine (e.g., “safety”) and law (e.g., “legality”). Medication abortion — misoprostol alone or in combination with mifepristone — has dramatically shifted these discussions. Brazilian women used misoprostol to self-manage their abortions in the…
by Elena Caruso While the exact definition of self-managed abortion remains blurred, it currently tends to refer to the end of a pregnancy through the autonomous administration of pills outside of a public health facility. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends self-management for pregnancies under 12 weeks, using a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol (or…
Photo credit: Farrah Skeiky by Patty Skuster and Heidi Moseson Medication abortion did not begin with a clinical trial; it began at home as self-managed abortion, or abortion without supervision from a clinician. Decades before the 2000 U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone for abortion, which is taken alongside misoprostol, feminists in Brazil…
Photo credit: Martina Šalov by Jessica Morris The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) is the world’s largest alliance of national professional societies of obstetricians and gynecologists. FIGO supports comprehensive, equitable, and accessible sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for everyone, recognizing that these are fundamental human rights and essential components needed to achieve global health…
Photo credit: Martina Šalov by David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe A new story of abortion in America is upon us. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and rejected a constitutional right to abortion, but so far, because of everything we chronicle in our forthcoming book After Dobbs: How the Supreme…
Photo credit: Martina Šalov International Safe Abortion Day is 28 September. This new digital symposium, ReproDialogue: Critical Discussions on Self-managed Abortion & Reproductive Justice by guest editor Lucía Berro Pizzarossa in collaboration with Birmingham Law School and the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham, brings the international revolution in…
by Rachel Rebouché Two years after deciding the case that overturned a constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court heard two cases on abortion law this term. The first involved a challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval and regulation of mifepristone, the first drug in a medication abortion. The second concerned the…
“Plan C” makes a strong case that the law has failed people with the capacity to become pregnant.
Mifepristone’s shifting legal terrain may soon raise new privacy considerations regarding telemedicine data collection, security, and disclosure.
While issues of influence affecting Supreme Court Justices attract the most attention, the factors that make Justices targets extend across the entire federal judiciary.
