Access to mifepristone, the FDA-approved medication used to end pregnancy, could become severely limited following a ruling from a US appeals court on Friday, which temporarily blocked the drug from being dispensed through the mail. The decision is for now the most sweeping threat to abortion access since the supreme court rolled back abortion rights…
The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in a temporary order that will, for now, allow women to once again obtain the pill mifepristone by mail. In a brief order, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. paused a lower-court ruling from Friday that had prevented abortion providers from prescribing…
A manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone, Danco Laboratories, filed an emergency appeal to the US supreme court on Saturday asking it to halt a court decision that would require an in‑person exam before the medication can be prescribed. The request came hours after the fifth US circuit court of appeals temporarily reinstated the requirement…
On Friday, the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked a Food and Drug Administration rule that allows doctors to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone via telemedicine. The decision sends a clear message: No woman in America, no matter where she lives, has total control over whether to continue or end a…
A manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of abortion back before the justices in an election year. The request came after a lower court on Friday temporarily restricted abortion providers nationwide from prescribing the pills by telemedicine…
A federal appeals court issued a ruling on Friday temporarily halting the ability of abortion providers to prescribe pills using telemedicine and send them to patients by mail, blocking what has become a major avenue for women seeking abortions in recent years. The order comes in a case in which the state of Louisiana is…
Mifepristone tablets sit on a table at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. A panel of the…
A court of appeal in Kenya on Friday struck down a ruling that had affirmed the right to an abortion, dealing a blow to reproductive rights in a country where thousands of women die each year from unsafe abortions. The decision, which is likely to be appealed to Kenya’s supreme court, holds that abortions deprive…
(RNS) — Though majorities in both groups support abortion being legal, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that both white Catholics and white mainline/nonevangelical Protestants have demonstrated a small swing toward an anti-abortion position since 2024. In a survey conducted throughout much of 2025 and released Thursday (April 23), 57% of…
Shorouk Express Spain’s leftist government on Friday proposed anchoring the right to abortion in the constitution following a move by Madrid city hall to inform women about a supposed “post-abortion syndrome”. The controversy erupted on Tuesday when Madrid city hall, controlled by the conservative Popular Party (PP) approved a far-right proposal to require medical services…
