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Jun 20 2023
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Kansas delays abortion pill law pending court decision
Kansas officials have agreed not to enforce a new restriction on medication abortions for at least five weeks before a state court judge decides whether to put it on hold until he decides a lawsuit challenging it and other existing rules. Providers and their attorneys announced the agreement Tuesday. For now, providers won't have to tell patients that they can stop a medication abortion using
Fox News (Online News)Apr 11 2023
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What the federal abortion pill ruling means for Minnesota
Access to medication abortion will continue in Minnesota even if a federal judge's ruling against a widely used pill, mifepristone, stands, local reproductive health care providers and advocates say. Driving the news: Texas district Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's decision pausing the FDA's 2000 approval of the pill, one of the two drugs commonly used in medication-induced abortions, is set to take
AxiosApr 10 2023
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FDA's power tested by dueling abortion pill rulings
In this 2018 photo, mifepristone and misoprostol pills are provided at a Carafem clinic for medication abortions in Skokie, Illinois. Photo: Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Last week’s dueling court rulings on abortion pills are refocusing attention on what legal powers the Food and Drug Administration has over prohibited drugs — and when it can disregard a
AxiosApr 09 2023
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Rulings step up legal wrangling on abortion pill
The ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration's approval 23 years ago of the abortion pill mifepristone has the potential to be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. But there are a lot of uncertainties -- especially because a federal judge in Washington state issued a contradictory ruling less
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteOct 02 2023
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As Rochester City Council considers multi-family zoning, Pill Hill pushes back
As she stands in the front yard of her Pill Hill home, Sasha Gentling describes one of her earliest memories. It happened just down the street, at her grandmother’s home.“I received my first kitten over at her house. I think I must have been four years old. So I do remember that birthday party in particular,” she said. This neighborhood of architectural time capsules sits just blocks from Mayo
MPR NewsApr 07 2023
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WA abortion pill ruling contradicts Texas decision
A federal judge in Eastern Washington on Friday prohibited the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from pulling a certain abortion pill off the market, raising immediate questions about the implications of a contradictory same-day decision in a Texas case. Nationwide access to and approval of mifepristone, one of two common abortion pills in the country, has drawn intense scrutiny since the U.S
The Seattle TimesOct 01 2023
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Some Pill Hill residents to speak against rezoning at Monday’s City Council meeting
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Residents of Rochester’s Pill Hill district are gathering to voice against zoning changes coming to the area. They will be attending Monday’s Rochester City Council meeting to propose changes to the city’s new zoning map. City of Rochester’s Ryan Yetzer says the rezoning is part of a comprehensive plan, along with a future land-use map, that was adopted in 2018. He
KTTC NewsApr 10 2023
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Justice Department appeals judge’s ruling on abortion pill
The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to put on hold a judge’s ruling that could make a medication abortion drug unavailable nationwide starting Friday at midnight. The request, filed on Monday before the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is seeking a short-term administrative stay as well as a long-term stay pending appeal on a lower court ruling from US District Judge
San Jose Mercury NewsApr 10 2023
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4 questions answered about the courts and the abortion pill mifepristone
Dueling, back-to-back rulings by federal judges about access to the drug mifepristone, which is used in most abortions in the United States, have raised questions about the future of reproductive health care in the country.
On Friday in Texas, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone should be put on hold, more than 20
PBS NewsHourSep 28 2023
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Nevada woman’s death after taking abortion pills spurs lawsuit, safety fears
The family of a Nevada woman who died of sepsis after taking abortion pills is suing for wrongful death, a case that is reigniting safety concerns as the Biden administration seeks to expand access by relaxing medical protocols.
Alyona Dixon, 24, died Sept. 28, 2022, less than a week after she was prescribed the two-pill abortion regimen at a Planned Parenthood clinic. The cause of
Washington Times