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What to know about the federal rule that Texans have used to mail in abortion pills

In 2023, the Food and Drug Administration started allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail. The federal courts are deciding whether to pull that permission.

The Texas Tribune · May 7

Supreme Court Asked to Restore Mail Access to Abortion Pill After Sweeping Appellate Ruling

Two makers of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court to block a federal appellate ruling that cut off mail-order access to the drug, in what legal experts are calling the most significant jolt to abortion policy since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Latin Times · May 4

Manufacturers of the abortion pill ask Supreme Court to restore access by mail

‘We’re now going to see, I think in a way we haven’t before, what the nation will look like when abortion bans are actually in effect,’ an expert on abortion law said

The Independent UK · May 3

Tennessee demands abortion data from hospitals in ban exceptions case

Medical groups subpoenaed for US abortion records in lawsuit over narrow exceptions to state’s near-total ban

The Guardian - US · Aug 6, 2025

Volunteers rush to send abortion pills to US women in need as ‘war between the states’ looms

Massachusetts abortion project pushes for access across country as controversial shield laws are put to legal test

The Guardian - US · Apr 26, 2025

How idea of charging women with murder infiltrated the anti-abortion movement

‘Abolitionists’ have migrated out of the fringes and moved toward the center of movement alongside Republicans’ penchant for punishment

The Guardian - US · Apr 23, 2025

Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas

The state with the most radical abortion law is seeking to make an example of Maria Margarita Rojas

The Guardian - US · Mar 22, 2025

Trump’s executive order on gender uses language pointing to ‘fetal personhood’

Words ‘at conception’ in order gesture to push by anti-abortion movement to give embryos and fetuses legal rights

The Guardian - US · Jan 23, 2025

Missouri lawmakers are going after voter-approved abortion rights. Voters will likely reelect them

Missouri voters last election approved a constitutional amendment that promised to undo the state’s near-total abortion ban

The Independent UK · Jan 19, 2025

Texas lawmakers take aim at abortion pills in new legislative session

Bills crafted to stop what is widely viewed a loophole as abortion pills have helped mitigate bans dotting the US

The Guardian - US · Jan 14, 2025