Nov 7 2025
Most pharmacies in British Columbia can provide the abortion pill mifepristone within days, but uneven access still leaves some women facing barriers to this time-sensitive medication, according to new research.
The study, published Nov. 6 in JAMA Network Open, offers the first province-wide look at pharmacy-level access to mifepristone in B.C.
Despite growing legal threats to the accessibility of abortion pills, national networks of volunteers are working to distribute the medication, discretely and without cost to patients.
Nov 4, 2025
by Carrie N. Baker
Since Roe fell, a community-led network of care has grown into a nationwide system with the promise of “mife no matter what.”
In June 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and over half of states banned or restricted abortion, grassroots activists across the country organized mutual aid groups to share free abortion pills with people living in restrictive states. Today, community providers distributing free abortion pills operate in every U.S. state and territory that bans or restricts abortion.
Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/04/free-abortion-pills-mifepristone-ban-states/
October 2025
Kelly Baden, Joerg Dreweke, Rachel K. Jones, Guttmacher Institute
False information and faulty science regarding the safety of the drug mifepristone, which is used in the vast majority of medication abortions in the United States, is at the center of a narrative that may further reduce abortion access. Mifepristone, and medication abortion more broadly, is safe, effective and widely used in the United States and globally. Despite its demonstrated safety, relentless policy and legal attacks aim to restrict or even ban access to this method of abortion.
This analysis will explore and counter several pernicious aspects of such attacks. These include the misrepresentation of normal signs a medication abortion is working as intended—for example, cramping or bleeding—as serious medical complications; and the conflation of routine or precautionary care-seeking by medication abortion patients with emergency treatment for serious adverse events.
21 Oct. 2025
Six years after Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down the country’s abortion ban, women seeking to end a pregnancy still face a legal void. The government has yet to approve abortion pills, and thousands are turning to the internet, where unverified drugs circulate in an expanding underground market.
Authorities uncovered 2,641 cases of illegal online sales of abortion medication since 2021, when the abortion ban lost effect, according to new data from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety submitted to Rep. Nam In-soon of the Democratic Party on Tuesday.
California becomes a last-resort haven for patients seeking to end pregnancies
By Audrey Tomlin • Bay City News
Oct 11, 2025
In September 2023, Marcela Bermudez bought a one-way ticket, stepped on a plane in Houston, Texas, and flew more than 1,000 miles to Los Angeles, California. She was 25 years old. She was 14 weeks pregnant. She did not want to be. Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing the federal constitutional right to an abortion, had been overturned 15 months earlier. In Texas, abortion was banned.
Bermudez was one of nearly 7,000 patients who traveled to California from out of state for an abortion that year. She, alongside other patients who crossed state lines for abortion care, shared memories of long, costly travels, overwhelming stigma, and the need for much effort and a little bit of luck — the right friend or a supportive partner — to receive their abortions.
Though it faces new legal challenges, mifepristone may offer yet more
By Elisa Wells
Sept. 28, 2025
When the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone, the abortion pill, on Sept. 28, 2000, none of us working on expanding access to reproductive health care could have imagined the future we find ourselves in 25 years later. From the fall of Roe in 2022 and the subsequent banning or restriction of abortion in 19 states, to South Carolina’s recent efforts to include some forms of birth control in its total abortion ban, access to the basic medical care and medications that allow us to control our reproductive destinies is hanging by a thread. In the midst of this reproductive health care apocalypse, mifepristone is proving itself to be a hero in the fight for abortion access.
Continued: https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/28/mifepristone-abortion-pill-fda-approval-25th-anniversary/
An undercover Times investigation reveals how US-inspired Christian activists are pushing dogma-driven medical, counselling and mental health services in the UK
Constance Kampfner
Tuesday September 23 2025
A little over a minute into my call with Rachel Mackenzie, one of Britain’s foremost anti-abortion activists, her voice tightens with urgency. “You had the pill last night — you can reverse it,” she tells me.
I have called her helpline to say that I am in early pregnancy and have taken one of two sets of prescribed abortion pills. I explain it is not the right time for me to become a mother, but that I am experiencing some doubts and am looking for advice.
She died of infection after an abortion. Now, her sister wants accountability
Investigations into Ontario woman’s treatment reveal missed red flags
The Globe and Mail (BC Edition)
27 Aug 2025
WENDY GLAUSER
From the moment Rheanna Laderoute was born, her older sister Kassandra Costabile doted on and protected her. Eight years younger, Ms. Laderoute was deeply empathetic, with a quiet grace and an offbeat sense of humour, Ms. Costabile recalls. And she remembers fondly how Ms. Laderoute could pull off silly sound effects and voices that no one else could – always making her laugh, even when she was upset.
Ms. Laderoute adored her older sister, too. Ms. Costabile once asked her sister why she would sometimes tell their mother about a relationship or school problem, but not her. “You’re the one I’m most fearful of disappointing,” Ms. Laderoute told her.
Continued: https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281487872460648
17 August 2025
Hyderabad: A 22-year-old woman from Kharkhana died following complications during an attempted abortion, Jawaharnagar police said on Saturday. Inspector Saiadaih said the woman, who was in a relationship, discovered she was four months pregnant. As both families were unaware and were separately searching for marriage alliances, the couple decided to terminate the pregnancy without informing them.
They told their parents they were going on a trip to Srisailam, but instead purchased abortion tablets, which the woman consumed. Soon after, her blood pressure dropped and she began bleeding heavily. On Friday, she sought help at a private hospital in Balaji Nagar, where she was admitted and given treatment, but the bleeding did not stop.
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Since the government made it possible for house doctors to prescribe the abortion pill at the start of this year, 392 general practitioners have completed the mandatory online additional training to do so. That is 3.2 percent of the total 12,246 GPs registered in the Netherlands, Trouw reports based on figures from Fiom, the expertise center for unwanted pregnancies, which organizes the additional training.
“We didn’t know what to expect beforehand,” Wendy Kersten, a policymaker at Fiom, told Trouw about the number of registrations. “The surveys were very mixed. We think it’s positive that women have more options, but it’s about freedom of choice, and that applies equally to the general practitioner.”
Continued: https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/07/nearly-400-dutch-doctors-register-prescribe-abortion-pill
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