The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the abortion pill mifepristone in 2000.  From that time until the end of December 2024, “approximately 7.5 million women” used the drug in the U.S. for “medical termination of pregnancy.”

According to the FDA, “As of December 31, 2024, there were 36 reports of deaths in patients associated with mifepristone since the product was approved in September 2000” (read more here). The FDA has received over 4,000 reports of adverse events from women experiencing hemorrhage, excruciating abdominal pain, and severe life-threatening infections.

However, since 2016, these kinds of adverse events are no longer required to be reported to the drug’s safety system. The FDA claims that the drug’s “adverse events cannot with certainty be causally attributed to mifepristone because of concurrent use of other drugs, other medical or surgical treatments, co-existing medical conditions, and information gaps about patient health status and clinical management of the patient.”

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