Mifepristone

  • Read more: Abortion debt: revolutionary acts and reclamations of care

    Abortion debt: revolutionary acts and reclamations of care

    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…

  • Read more: Does History Matter?

    Does History Matter?

    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…

  • Read more: A full circle moment: legal risks to mifepristone and evidence for abortion with misoprostol alone

    A full circle moment: legal risks to mifepristone and evidence for abortion with misoprostol alone

    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…

  • Read more: Doctors as Advocates for Self-Managed Abortion and Reproductive Justice

    Doctors as Advocates for Self-Managed Abortion and Reproductive Justice

    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…

  • Read more: After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

    After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

    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…

  • Read more: ReproDialogue: Critical Discussions on Self-Managed Abortion & Reproductive Justice

    ReproDialogue: Critical Discussions on Self-Managed Abortion & Reproductive Justice

    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…

  • Read more: Evidence and Authority in Abortion Law

    Evidence and Authority in Abortion Law

    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…