What Is Mifepristone, the Abortion Drug at Issue in the Hearing?
A key issue in the hearing has been whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would increase scrutiny of the abortion drug mifepristone if he becomes HHS secretary. The drug is part of a two-step process that is now the most common way to end a pregnancy in the U.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to walk back his past anti-vaccine and pro-abortion rights stances in his Senate confirmation ...
A new study shows a possible new abortion drug to replace mifepristone. But will these results increase abortion access—or restrict women's reproductive health options down the line?
The research could further complicate the polarized politics of abortion because the drug in the study is the key ingredient ...
Last year, the Supreme Court preserved the Food and Drug Administration’s previous existing approval of mifepristone. As the drug faces greater legal challenges, and after the fall of Roe v.
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse slammed Kennedy for what he called his anti-vaccine views and past statements citing rising measles cases. "Frankly, you frighten people," the Rhode Island senator, ...
Khaya Himmelman spoke to one of the 60,000 voters in North Carolina whose ballots Republican state Supreme Court candidate ...
Several states, including Massachusetts, began stockpiling the drug after a federal court ruling in Texas blocked the FDA’s ...
A decision by a federal judge last week is reviving the effort to limit access to mifepristone, opening a fresh round of litigation over a widely used drug that has grown in importance since the ...
In the three-hour hearing, Kennedy fielded questions on his interpretation of Title X, late-term abortions, mifepristone, ...
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