Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a medication used in combination with misoprostol to safely and legally end an early pregnancy.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether people seeking an abortion can obtain mifepristone without visiting a doctor’s office or clinic.
The recent death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart supporter of the right to an abortion, forces into sharp relief what is now at stake.
How has the false narrative that mifepristone poses an hazard to public health made it all the way to the Supreme Court? One reason may be that reality-based abortion stories aren’t told often enough in popular culture.
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