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Aid Access is a nonprofit organization that provides access to medication abortion by mail to the United States and worldwide. It describes its work as a harm reduction strategy designed to provide safe access to mifepristone and misoprostol for those able to become pregnant in the United States who may not otherwise have access to abortion or miscarriage management services. [2]
Another form such legislation sometimes takes is in the creation of a perimeter around an abortion facility, known variously as a "safe access zone", "access zone", "buffer zone" or "bubble zone". This area is intended to limit how close to these facilities demonstration by those who oppose abortion can approach. Protests and other displays are ...
[159] [160] [161] Even so, several states in the US require providers of non-surgical abortion who use mifepristone to tell patients that reversal is an option. [162] In 2019, researchers initiated a small trial of the so-called "reversal" regimen using mifepristone followed by progesterone or placebo.
In September 1995, The Population Council licensed mifepristone to Danco Laboratories and entered into a manufacturing agreement with Hungarian drug manufacturer Gedeon Richter. [5] In 1996, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conditionally licensed RU-486 for early trimester abortion, pending a resolution on some remaining technical and ...
During a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Thursday, former President Donald Trump would not rule out revoking access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions.
Mifepristone was developed in 1980 and came into use in France in 1987. [16] It became available in the United States in 2000, for medication abortion, and in 2010, for Cushing's syndrome. [17] [10] [12] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [18] Mifepristone was approved in Canada in January 2017. [19] [20]
DuPont would not have been the only abortion provider in Beverly Hills. It would not even have been the only abortion provider at 8920 Wilshire Blvd., where the clinic was set to open last fall.
Kickbacks offered to physicians by medical device manufacturers take a variety of forms, ranging from free practice management services to all-expense-paid trips and sham consulting agreements. To illustrate these arrangements, I will summarize several settlements with device companies and a recent conviction of a physician.