by Sofia Resnick | Stateline, CT Mirror October 27, 2026 In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to…
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. The vast majority of…
All contraceptive methods can be used to prevent pregnancy, but only some reduce the risk of STI transmission. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 65 percent of U.S. women aged 15-49 were using at least one form of contraception. Common contraceptive methods include condoms,…
A decades-long push to get FDA approval for an over-the-counter birth control pill is approaching a final showdown. The FDA is slated to make a decision as soon as the summer. But an agency analysis of the pill’s approval application…
A Cochrane review of 87 randomized trials found that mifepristone emergency contraception prevented more pregnancies and caused fewer side effects than levonorgestrel and the Yuzpe regimen.
Less than a third of FDA-mandated trials for drugs approved between 2015 and 2021 had been completed by May 2024. A recent review of new drugs approved between 2015 and 2021 showed that testing these drugs on children, as required by the Pediatric Research Equity…
The FDA gave a court-ordered update on its progress in a legal filing late Wednesday, providing the first substantive information about the controversial reevaluation ordered by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mifepristone was first approved by the FDA in 2000. The…
Prominent scholars with broad expertise Ways for students to get involved The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Yale Health Law and Policy Society (YHeLPS), and the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice (PSRJ) hosted a panel…
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. "Singling out medication abortion while ignoring the agricultural and industrial pollutants that are proven threats to our…
When Roe was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022, many feared that pregnant people would become subject to even more surveillance, prosecution, and criminalization than they already faced pre-ruling. Grimly, those concerns have continued to come to pass—as was…
Medication abortion: the FDA's review of mifepristone, shield laws and telehealth prescribing, and the lawsuits over abortion pills sent by mail.
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