The abortion tablet is the most typical technique to terminate a being pregnant within the U.S., based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

The CDC, in a report printed Wednesday, discovered that about 51% of abortions in 2020 had been carried out with the tablet at or earlier than the ninth week of being pregnant. From 2019 to 2020, abortions with the tablet elevated 22%, based on the report.

The tablet, mifepristone, has develop into a flashpoint within the battle over reproductive rights within the wake of the Supreme Courtroom’s determination to abolish federal abortion rights in June. Twelve states have outlawed abortion since then, however banning the tablet is tough as a result of it has develop into simpler to acquire.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Meals and Drug Administration suspended a requirement that girls get hold of mifepristone in individual, permitting them to obtain the tablet by mail and at retail pharmacies. The drug company introduced in December 2021 that it will make this modification everlasting.

Anti-abortion teams final week requested a federal court docket in Texas to overturn the FDA’s greater than two-decade-old approval of mifepristone. The teams’ attorneys are from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a company concerned within the Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group case that led the Supreme Courtroom to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and eight different senators requested the FDA in a letter final week to to increase entry to mifepristone by approving its use for miscarriage administration. This could enhance ladies’s entry to the tablet in states which might be proscribing entry, the senators wrote.

The FDA has accredited mifepristone together with the pill misoprostol as a way to terminate pregnancies earlier than the tenth week. Mifepristone prevents the being pregnant from persevering with and misoprostol causes contractions that vacant the uterus. The strategy is 96% to 98% efficient at ending early pregnancies.

The abortion tablet has develop into an more and more frequent technique to finish a being pregnant within the U.S. Abortions with the tablet elevated 154% from 2011 to 2020, based on CDC information.

Greater than 620,000 abortions had been carried out within the U.S. in 2020, a 15% lower since 2011. Nearly all abortions, 93%, are carried out at or earlier than the thirteenth week of being pregnant, and 80% are achieved at or earlier than the ninth week, based on the CDC information.

Surgical abortions are the second commonest technique to finish a being pregnant. About 40% of all abortions had been carried out with surgical procedures at or earlier than that thirteenth week of being pregnant, based on the CDC.