As the founder and CEO of Desert Star Family Planning in Phoenix, Arizona, I have seen for 10 years firsthand how access to the safe and highly effective method of medication abortion with mifespristone and misoprostol improved the lives of my patients. It is increasingly being used for miscarriage management, as well. And it is very disconcerting how the reproductive autonomy of millions hangs in the balance in a case brought by known anti-abortion extremists with no real scientific merit. It is leaving pregnant people in the clinics that provide care for them in limbo as we figure out how this plays out.
The Food and Drug Administration has reviewed mifespristone several times over the 23 years since the medication was approved, and reached the same conclusion as other regulatory agencies in other countries, that medication is safe and effective. And so, it is just
— source democracynow.org | Apr 10, 2023