About 14,000 abortion pills are prescribed online each month in the United States, with the pills sent by mail. The FDA, the US drug regulator, says these treatments are safe, and they are.
But conservatives, ever more determined to control women's bodies against their will, are challenging this opinion. A ruling would change women's rights, not state by state, as was the case in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in favor of abortion, but across the country.