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/
Some scientists are concerned that the Trump administration will use “junk science” when reviewing mifepristone’s safety record
October 30, 2025
By Liz Szabo
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will launch a review of the safety of the abortion pill, mifepristone. Health researchers say they’re concerned that the review will be politicized and based on flawed reports. More than 100 studies published over the past few decades have shown that the drug, which was approved by the FDA in 2000, is safe and effective at ending a pregnancy.
Given Kennedy’s history of misrepresenting scientific evidence about vaccines, autism and Tylenol, some scientists say they worry that the health secretary will base the FDA report on unreliable sources.
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.
Blue-state attempts to crack down on the treatment could end up shielding “fake clinics” from any oversight.
Garnet Henderson, Susan Rinkunas, Mother Jones
Oct 15, 2025
Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, often misleading and confusing people seeking abortions while purporting to help them. They mimic the appearance of abortion clinics, with similar-sounding names and even lookalike logos. Their volunteers sometimes pose as clinic staff to divert abortion patients from getting care. Their websites are teeming with disinformation, including claims that abortion is unsafe or linked to future mental illness, breast cancer, and fertility issues. “A killer, who in this case is the girl who wants to kill her baby, has no right to information that will help her kill her baby,” Robert Pearson, founder of the very first CPC in the US, once declared.
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.
RFK Jr is conducting a review of mifepristone, citing a deeply flawed study. The move could be devastating for women
Moira Donegan, Guardian
Mon 29 Sep 2025
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s health department is conducting a new review of mifepristone, the drug used in the majority of American abortions, claiming that a new study from a conservative thinktank has raised concerns about its safety.
Mifepristone, which was approved by the FDA 25 years ago this month, has repeatedly been proven safe and effective for use terminating pregnancies in both multiple medical trials and in widespread patient use over the past quarter of a century. The report cited by Kennedy, meanwhile, comes from the Ethics and Public Policy Center – a group that applies “the Jewish and Christian traditions” to modern law and pushes back “against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives” – and was not peer reviewed. The study has been heavily criticized by medical experts for its methodology and lack of transparency regarding how it obtained and analyzed its data.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/abortion-pill-mifepristone-trump-rfk
By: Faith Argosino - Reporter / @FArgosinoINQINQUIRER.net
September 28, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — Women seeking to terminate unwanted pregnancies seem to have found solace in online selling platforms, where vendors openly offer “abortion pills” or herbal potions marketed as remedies to “regulate” menstruation.
A quick search on several e-commerce sites, and even on Facebook, shows that these pills can be purchased through anonymous accounts — many of which are now inactive. In a few public online groups, sellers even post glowing reviews, with images of expelled embryos or sanitary pads soaked in blood clots and screenshots of conversations with “satisfied” customers.
Safeguarding mifepristone is not just about abortion care—it’s about defending the role of science in medicine itself.
9/26/2025
by Kiki Freedman, Ms. Magazine
Twenty-five years ago, the Food and Drug Administration made a decision that changed the course of reproductive health in America. By approving mifepristone (the first pill in the two-step medication abortion regimen), the agency gave people access to one of the safest, most effective and most studied medications in modern medicine.
Since then, more than 7.5 million Americans have relied on it to end pregnancies safely and with dignity. Its safety record is stronger than many drugs we take without question, including penicillin. What was once a breakthrough is now a cornerstone of healthcare. And at a moment when vaccines, Tylenol and even basic public health guidance are being questioned, that kind of evidence-based decision-making feels more fragile—and more essential—than ever.
Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/09/26/mifepristone-safe-effective-science-women-health-ru-486/
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