Ever since The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, it's felt like abortion restrictions have been coming at us left and right. And by now, you’re probably familiar with alllll of the drama ...

Share on Pinterest Medication abortion by misoprostol alone is a safe and highly effective method of terminating pregnancy, new research found. SDI Productions/Getty Images The abortion medication ...

Louisiana doctors say they still have plenty of questions about how they will be able to access a life-saving drug once it’s placed under restricted access starting next month — even after state ...

In between sessions, she fell into conversation with a group of Brazilian women in the hallway, who talked about a pill she had never heard of before: Cytotec, the commercial name of misoprostol. The ...

One day, she saw the doctor use a new method: misoprostol, the ulcer medication that women in Brazil first started using for abortions in the late 1980s. An underground network of feminists and ...

This story is an accompaniment to a three-part podcast series released by NPR's Embedded and Futuro Media. You can listen to the full series here or wherever you listen to podcasts. In November 1990, ...