A medication abortion involves taking both mifepristone and misoprostol, but experts say that misoprostol alone is a safe and effective method. (Getty Images) Adding to the confusion is the fact that ...

About half of people who get legal abortions in the United States — and three-quarters in Europe — use medication abortion. By Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz Mifepristone is used as part of ...

The fate of mifepristone — a drug that, when combined with misoprostol, is prescribed for medication abortions, which now account for more than half of all abortions performed in the U.S. — is up in ...