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A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher dose as an abortion drug, providing a possible alternative to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used ...

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Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June and the end of constitutional protection for abortion, emergency contraception has become more difficult to obtain and – more than ever – shrouded in ...

Access to reproductive care has been under fire in America since June 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that guaranteed the federal right to an abortion. Since ...

Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, ...

FILE - An abortion- rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups rally outside the Supreme ...

Preventive care moves to the head of the class in the health care overhaul law, because starting this fall, new health plans will have to begin providing certain preventive medical services free of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new study suggests that a pill used for ...