Republicans Repeat Problematic Estimate of Medication Abortion Harms

In the midst of a court battle over whether to continue to allow access by mail to the medication abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers have claimed that 10% or more of women who take the drug have serious side effects. A 2025 report from an anti-abortion group that put forward the figure has been criticized by reproductive health researchers for methodological issues and a lack of transparency about its data source. The post Republicans Repeat Problematic Estimate of Medication Abortion Harms appeared first on FactCheck.org.