New Study Just Dropped: Mifepristone, for the Millionth Time, Is Safe

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New Study Just Dropped: Mifepristone, for the Millionth Time, Is Safe

“FDA staff and scientists were basing the recommendations on the evidence, and that’s how it’s supposed to be,” said one of the study’s co-authors.

https://www.jezebel.com/new-study-just-dropped-mifepristone-for-the-millionth-time-is-safe


By Danielle Han | January 12, 2026 | 5:49pm


Well, would you look at that? Not only is water wet, the ocean vast, and the Beckham feud enduring, but the abortion pill mifepristone is safe—and the FDA studies between 2011 and 2023 that declared it so were based on nothing other than fact and real science. If only we knew how good we had it when we had it.

This naked truth was brought to light on Monday, after medical journal JAMA published a new study detailing that, in the past, the FDA’s track record on regulating mifepristone was never politically motivated. (While anti-abortion activists have seemingly succeeded in convincing the current FDA to conduct a new review of the abortion pill, they’ve previously accused the FDA of succumbing to political pressure from abortion rights activists on the left.) Mifepristone, the first of two pills in a medication abortion, is the most common medication in telehealth abortion care. (According to the Society of Family Planning, telehealth abortions accounted for 27% of abortions in the first half of 2025.)......................................

New Study Just Dropped: Mifepristone, for the Millionth Time, Is Safe

“FDA staff and scientists were basing the recommendations on the evidence, and that’s how it’s supposed to be,” said one of the study’s co-authors.

www.jezebel.com/new-study-ju...

By Danielle Han | January 12, 2026

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