Explainer: Current Updates on Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone & Safety Concerns
Learn about the recent Texas and Washington court rulings that questioned the FDA's authority in approving mifepristone and their potential long-term implications. Discover the safety and effectiveness of mifepristone for terminating a pregnancy and understand its current legal status through the various Court cases against it.
Fact Check: Abortion Rates and Systemic Factors in the United States
In a leaked draft opinion from the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case, Justice Samuel Alito claims that abortion negatively impacts Black communities and people who support abortion want to “suppress the size of the African American population,” a claim that ignores systemic reasons and greater context for why there are higher rates of abortion in Black and other communities of color.