Editorial: The only thing certain about medication abortion is the confusion over how to get it (via latimesopinion )
The ruling ignores good sense, sound medical judgment and more than two decades of safe usage around the world. Mifepristone has been used safely in the U.S. for more than 20 years.But when mifepristone was first authorized in 2000, medication abortion pills could be dispensed only by a doctor in a clinic after three in-person medical visits and had to be taken in a doctor’s office, and it was available only up to seven weeks into a pregnancy.
Most important, will doctors be able to prescribe it off-label, which doctors do regularly for medication they determine is safe for a use other than what the FDA approved? If so, that would mean they could prescribe up to 10 or 11 weeks off-label under the appellate court ruling.
Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said lawyers are still trying to figure out what the appellate court ruling means. She predicted that unless the Supreme Court steps in to restore the use of mifepristone as currently allowed by the FDA, “it will cause massive chaos and wreak havoc on access to abortion and miscarriage care.”
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