Roe vs. Wade’s Flip has shed light on a small manufacturer of abortion pills, which is emerging as a flashpoint between advocates and opponents of the procedure.
Abortion-rights advocates have lobbied for decades for greater access to mifepristone, the abortion drug that Danko Laboratories LLC manufactures under the brand name Mifeprex and sells for about $50 per pill. They want the Food and Drug Administration to lift safety restrictions on the drug, make it available without a prescription, or expand its label to approve it for abortion, for which it is sometimes prescribed off-label. Is. An official access to abortion would help ensure that women who experienced a miscarriage could get the drug. It could also make it difficult for prosecutors to investigate the doctors who prescribed the pills. States where abortion is bannedAbortion-rights advocates said.