We know of seven deaths of women who had
mifepristone medication abortions in North America.
When choosing
mifepristone medication abortion at one of our health centers, you received extensive education and counseling on the method, what to expect, and whom to contact with any concern at any time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Not exact matches
FDA - approved in 2000,
mifepristone is most often used together with another
medication, misoprostol, to end an early pregnancy.
Nineteen states require a physician to be physically present to provide
mifepristone — the only
medication specifically approved by the FDA for use in
medication abortions — and 17 states require
medication abortions to be performed in a facility with attributes of an ambulatory surgery center or hospital.
This follows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 2016 approval of a new label for Mifeprex (
mifepristone), one of the medicines used in a
medication abortion.
In public debate, EC is confused — often intentionally, by anti-abortion proponents — with the
medication abortion option,
mifepristone.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reaffirmed the safety of
mifepristone and the 2016 label for
medication abortion in a report for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In 2000, the FDA approved
mifepristone, known as
medication abortion or the abortion pill, after several years of delays due to political opposition.
After taking
mifepristone, you take a second
medication (misoprostol) at home 6 - 48 hours later.
It recommends a lower dosage of
mifepristone and a higher dosage of another medicine used in
medication abortion.
Here you can link to the required
medication guide that clinicians need to use when providing
medication abortion using
mifepristone.
Here you can link to the Danco forms clinicians need to use when providing
medication abortion using
mifepristone.
This method uses a combination of 2
medications:
Mifepristone, which ends the pregnancy, and Misoprostol which helps to expel the pregnancy.