PTI
05 October, 2026
Berhampur (Odisha) Oct 5 (PTI) Drug inspectors in Odisha’s Ganjam district have been directed to take stringent action against the sale of medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) kits and other abortion pills without prescriptions, officials said on Monday.
The move is aimed at protecting women’s health, curbing illegal abortions and improving the child sex ratio in the district, Ganjam Collector Keerthi Vasan V said.
“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”
Rebecca Grant, Mother Jones
November+December 2026 Issue
(online Sep 30, 2026)
When Lena walks into the cafe near an airport somewhere outside the US, she looks like any other traveler grabbing a cup of coffee before a flight. She orders a drink and picks a table out of earshot of other patrons, keeping her suitcase close by her side.
In the clandestine world of underground abortion activists, Lena—not her real name—is a courier. The trips she takes abroad—we can’t say where—are supply runs to pick up generic versions of mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs that make up the standard medication abortion regimen. Soon, another traveler—her supplier—approaches her table, also dragging a suitcase.
Ministry of Health and Welfare
Sep 21, 2026
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF, Minister Won Min-Kyong), together with the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW, Minister Jeong Eun Kyeong) and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Oh Yu-Kyoung), presented a plan to introduce abortion medication at the 14th National Policy Coordination Meeting held on Wednesday, September 16, at the Government Complex Seoul.
The move follows a national policy agenda item and President Lee Jae Myung’s July directive to review the possibility of allowing abortion medication. The measure is intended to protect women’s safety and their right to health by bringing abortion medication that has circulated through unregulated channels into the national healthcare system for formal introduction and management.
Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”
Nina Martin
July 31, 2026
For most of the three years it’s existed, the second-largest telehealth abortion provider in the country has operated out of an office not much bigger than a lot of bathrooms. “That is what half a million dollars of mifepristone looks like,” Dr. Angel Foster tells the Tufts University medical students crowded around the conference table, nodding toward the cubicle across the hall. The bins lining the plate-glass windows are filled with Priority Mail packages containing abortion pills, ready to be labeled and shipped. Shelves hold supplies of mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs in the gold-standard abortion-pill regimen, all waiting to be packed.
Foster is a leader in the movement that has revolutionized telemedicine abortion care in the post–Roe v. Wade era. The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, or The MAP, which she co-founded in 2023, is the culmination of a 30-year career on the cutting edge of global reproductive care. Figuring out how to get abortion pills to people who need them, while preparing for a future in which those pills may no longer be legal, is a core part of Foster’s—and The MAP’s—mission.
By Mary Ziegler
July 22, 2026
Up until now, the second Trump Department of Justice has been a massive disappointment for the anti-abortion movement. That may all be about to change. At his recent confirmation hearings, Todd Blanche, Trump’s choice to replace Pam Bondi as attorney general, had several revealing exchanges with Republican senators on abortion. Blanche, the acting attorney general, pledged to use DOJ resources to stop telehealth abortion, and even appeared to agree with Sen. Ted Cruz that the Comstock Act, a 19th-century obscenity law, operates as a de facto national ban on abortion.
Continued: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/todd-blanche-news-abortion-rights-comstock-act.html
Filipinos wanting to end unwanted pregnancies have resorted to black-market alternatives that can result in life-threatening consequences
2 Jul 2026
The arrest of a 65-year-old woman accused of selling abortion pills in Manila has offered a glimpse into the shadow economy growing around ending unwanted pregnancies in the Philippines, one of the few countries in the world where the procedure remains criminalised in almost all circumstances.
For women and girls trying to end unwanted pregnancies, access often depends on online sellers, market vendors, whispered referrals and the uncertain quality of pills bought far from formal medical care, where complications can quickly become life-threatening.
U.S. abortion doulas are turning to decades of Latin American feminist expertise to make second-trimester medication abortions safer, less painful and more accessible
June 5, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker
Across the world, women living in countries that ban licensed clinicians from performing abortions have always found ways to access abortion outside of the medical system. Today, abortion pills have made it much safer.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states banned abortion, U.S.-based activists turned to Latin American feminists who have run collectives supporting women seeking abortions outside of the medical system for decades.
With their guidance, U.S.-based activists have created their own feminist collectives that now serve thousands of women and girls each month in 38 states that ban and restrict abortion access, including the entire Southeast and much of the Midwest of the country. These collectives provide free abortion pills and the doula support to see them through.
One in four abortions in the U.S. rely on telehealth access to mifepristone, but antiabortion activists want to ban it
May 27, 2026
By Meghan Bartels, edited by Tanya Lewis
After a tense few weeks during which U.S. courts twice revoked and reinstated telehealth access to the abortion pill mifepristone, the drug remains available without an in-office appointment—for now. But doctors and policy experts worry that uncertainty and any future rollback in access will make things harder for people seeking to end a pregnancy and place added pressure on the health care system.
Since 2022, when the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the right to abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade, antiabortion proponents have focused on mifepristone. They claim, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary, that the drug is unsafe. First approved in the U.S. in 2000, mifepristone is currently used here in combination with the drug misoprostol up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy.
Even as courts and politicians attempt to restrict abortion access, medication abortion remains widely available through international telehealth providers, community networks and vetted online sources.
May 11, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker, Ms. Magazine
As legal battles over abortion pills continue to play out in the courts, many people across the United States are asking the same urgent question: If the Supreme Court or lower courts restrict access to mifepristone by mail, how can American women still get abortion pills?
The short answer: There are still multiple ways to safely and affordably access abortion medication.
Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/05/11/how-to-get-abortion-pills/
The court’s conservatives promised that repealing Roe would bring stability. It has done the opposite.
By Jill Filipovic
May 05, 2026
… Overturning Roe didn’t resolve a contentious national argument and bring about an era of considered debate followed by a democratic process to set abortion laws that reflect public opinion; it just made abortion rights far more fragile, including in the liberal states that seek to protect them. Instead of turning the issue back to the states, abortion opponents are now focused on ending abortion access nationwide. Instead of providing clarity, the courts have created chaos.
Continued: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/supreme-court-abortion-pill-access.html
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