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 ...

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. As she watched the doctor administer the pills ...

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 ...