Majority of US abortions in 2020 were medication abortions, analysis finds
Women | The Guardian
The increase came as telehealth and mailing medication during the pandemic made healthcare accessible for vulnerable people
Medication abortion accounted for the majority of all abortions for the first time in US history in 2020, a new analysis by the Guttmacher Institute has shown.
Sometimes called the “abortion pill”, medication abortion is a two-drug treatment that is approved to terminate a pregnancy up to 10 weeks gestation or less. The drugs, sold under the brand name Mifeprex, have accounted for an increasingly large share of all abortions in the US since its introduction in 2000.
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