The fate of mifepristone, a common abortion pill approved by the FDA some 23 years ago, may ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court. ... all while real people pay the price," Hopkins said. ...

A case will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that could affect how women access mifepristone, a pill used in 'the most common type of abortion' in the country.

Mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion, faces tighter restrictions than it has in years after a federal appeals court ordered a return to the rules that were put in place when the drug ...

Until now, mifepristone — the first pill used in the two-drug medication abortion regimen — could be dispensed only by a few mail-order pharmacies or by specially certified doctors or clinics.

Mifepristone can continue to be mailed to patients without an in-person visit with a doctor after the US Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that challenged regulation of the abortion pill ...

Mifepristone has been discussed in more than 780 medical reviews and used in more than 630 published clinical trials, the AMA said. It has also long been approved for use in 19 countries.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the FDA "to review the latest data on mifepristone ," but experts say concerns about the abortion pill's safety are misguided.

Mifepristone's approval has been questioned before. This isn't the first time there have been allegations that the FDA bungled the approval of mifepristone, which was known as RU-486 early on.

The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the U.S., for now. NPR's Adrian Florido talks to Julie Rovner of KFF Health News.

The Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone as part of a two-drug protocol to induce abortions in 2000. In 2016, the FDA made the drug more easily available, saying it could be used ...