New federal labeling guidelines for the abortion pill deliver a major victory to the abortion-rights movement, and throw opponents of the procedure on the defensive.
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Oklahoma’s Abortion Battle Goes National
The Supreme Court will decide whether a law that bans the abortion pill is constitutional.
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The Dignity of Reproductive Choice
The repro rights movement was annoyed with my recent post. Here’s why.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
What Does an Abortionist Look Like?
Even with the new regime of restrictive abortion laws, women will still get abortions. They’ll just be unsafe ones.
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RU-486 HASN’T IMPROVED ABORTION ACCESS.
The Guttmacher Institute released new research that shows the abortion pill (mifepristone, still known by some folks as RU-486) hasn’t broadened abortion access in the United States. One of the reasons that feminists worked so hard to get the FDA to approve mifepristone is that they hoped it would be a way for your average […]
Posted inDispatches
The Little Pill that Could
In the mid-1990s, the abortion wars were at a fever pitch over the impending approval of RU-486. Time magazine called it “The Pill that Changes Everything,” The New York Times Magazine dubbed it a “little white bombshell,” and anti-abortion leaders said over and over that this drug was dangerous because it would make having an […]