The abortion and miscarriage care drug mifepristone is at the center of a case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court that seeks to limit access to it. Here is a history of the drug and what's happening now that the Supreme Court has overturned national abortion rights.
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Decades of data, including data collected during the coronavirus pandemic, support mifepristone’s safety. The drug’s fate in the United States may now be determined by judicial review.
In September 2003, 18-year-old Holly Patterson, who was seven weeks pregnant, walked into a Planned Parenthood clinic in California and began the chemical abortion pill regimen. One week later, she died in a local hospital after going into septic shock from a bacterial infection, Clostridium sordelli. Her father, Monty Patterson, has spent the years since her death highlighting the dangers of the abortion pill. “I’m not pro-life or pro-choice,” he said in one interview, “I’m pro-Holly.” He described the look of fear in her eyes at the hospital shortly before she died.