Abortion pills - the most common way to end pregnancies in the US - are in activists' crosshairs.
As a crowd assembled outside the United States Supreme Court, waiting for its landmark abortion ruling last month, Kristan Hawkins stood front and centre.
"Our organisation was established as a post-Roe organisation," she told the BBC, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision overturned in June, which had guaranteed women's right to abortion nationwide. Throughout two decades of use, the FDA, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists and other mainstream medical organisations have maintained that both mifepristone and misoprostol are safe for use. US studies sayand requires further medical follow-up less than 1% of the time.
When mifepristone was first approved by the FDA, it was placed in a programme for risky drugs because most of the safety data came from outside the US. And for years, mifepristone remained among the most heavily regulated drugs in the country, despite growing evidence demonstrating the drug was safe.
In recent days, abortion - including medication abortion - has been prohibited in at least 10 states, sometimes with exceptions for rape or incest. Nearly a dozen states are expected to follow. Some anti-abortion advocates have targeted the pills specifically, barring the use of telemedicine or the delivery of medication by mail.
Plan C, an abortion pill advocacy group, had 311,000 visitors on its website in the single weekend after Roe was repealed, founder Amy Merrill told the BBC - well above its previous monthly average of 50,000.Indeed, pro-choice advocates say abortion medication will be a lifeline to women in states where the procedure is prohibited.
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