miscarriage

Jillian Philips and her sons, Jude and Emmett, hold an urn containing some of the ashes of her daughter, Emilia Phillips, May 2, 2023, in North Brookfield, Mass. The urn is housed in a teddy bear that daughter Macy sleeps with nightly. Philips, who used the drug mifepristone to manage her miscarriage, is concerned that other women who miscarry could suffer if the pill, also used for abortions, is taken off the market. (Reba Saldanha/The Associated Press)

Many women can’t access miscarriage drug because it’s also used for abortions

BY: - October 23, 2023

Read more Stateline coverage on how states are either protecting or curbing access to abortions. Since losing her first pregnancy four months ago, 32-year-old Lulu has struggled to return to her body’s old rhythms. Lulu, who asked to be identified by her first name to protect her privacy, bled for six full weeks after her […]

Birth control abortion drug, morning after pill

Abortion pill to stay on the market until U.S. Supreme Court ruling after appeals court order

BY: - August 16, 2023

WASHINGTON —  A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the abortion pill can stay on the market, but it agreed with a lower court that ultimately use should revert to prescribing and dosage instructions that were in place before 2016. That appeals court ruling will immediately be put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court decides […]

Pregnancy resource centers tout their services to Arkansas lawmakers

BY: - August 10, 2023

CORRECTION: Arkansas Pregnancy Resource Center is next door to Little Rock Family Planning Services. An earlier version of this story erroneously named another organization. Some Arkansas lawmakers said Thursday that they see pregnancy resource centers as tools to help reduce infant, child and maternal mortality in the state, which has a near-total abortion ban and […]

Study cited by Texas judge in abortion-pill case under investigation

BY: - August 1, 2023

Pharmaceutical sciences professor Chris Adkins was perusing news on his computer in December when he came across an item that fascinated him: Anti-abortion groups had sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to force a recall on a commonly used abortion drug. Adkins teaches future pharmacists at South University School of Pharmacy* in Savannah, Georgia. […]