Mythopristone is a tiny pill with a big reach.

I read things about medication abortion all the time and I think, oh wow, I've never

looked at what these pills really are.

So they're the size of normal pills.

Mythopristone is taken in one dose, it's one pill.

Rachel Rebusche is the dean of the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

We spent a lot of time explaining what Mythopristone is and how medication abortions work.

Medication abortions take place during the first 11 weeks of pregnancy and they involve

two drugs.

One of those drugs is Mythopristone.

So in 2020, Gutemacher Institute found that over 50% of people who in pregnancies in

the US use medication abortion.

And that number has been going up over the last 20 years since it was approved in 2000.

There's reason to think it's going up much more dramatically now.

But that could be coming to a sudden halt soon.

Last week, a federal judge in Texas refuted the Food and Drug Administration's approval

of Mythopristone, issuing an injunction that would suspend that approval nationwide

even in states where abortion isn't banned.

That's despite the fact that more than 100 studies over 30 years say the drug is safe.

The FDA has evaluated it multiple times.

It even approved a generic version as recently as 2019.

It's whiplash to read the opinion because you think, you know, this opinion is so certain

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