US Allows Retail Pharmacies To Sell Abortion Pills. What This Means
NDTV
Where abortion is legal, the new measure adds a third option for obtaining the pills, after abortion clinics and the mail. It could allow some women to abort sooner.
US public health officials this week authorized pharmacies to sell abortion pills by prescription. What exactly does that change for women in the United States, after several states banned abortion last year?- Where were they sold before? -
A medication-induced abortion, also known as medical abortion, involves taking two different drugs over the course of one or two days.
The first (mifepristone) blocks the pregnancy, and the second (misoprostol) provokes bleeding to empty the uterus.
The biggest issues surround mifepristone, which has been authorized and tightly regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2000.