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Abortion providers wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on mifepristone

The Supreme Court will weigh in on whether doctors can still provide patients with mifepristone across the country. Abortion providers share how they're navigating this uncertainty with patients.
- Selena Simmons-Duffin
Here's what really happened during the abortion drug's approval 23 years ago

A Texas judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration wrongly approved mifepristone in 2000 and accused it of doing a rush job. Here's what really went down.
- Sydney Lupkin
The pharmaceutical industry urges courts to preserve access to abortion pill

As the debate over mifepristone makes its way to the Supreme Court, the pharmaceutical industry has raised concerns that ruling against the FDA could chill the development of new drugs.
- Becky Sullivan
'Therapy speak' is everywhere, but it may make us less empathetic

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with culture writer Rebecca Fishbein about her reporting on how "therapy speak" may be making us less empathetic.
- Juana Summers
Why do some people get UTIs over and over? A new report holds clues

A new study looks at how urinary tract infections can affect DNA. And down the road that could lead to new treatments for the millions who get UTIs.
- Max Barnhart
U.S. appeals court preserves partial access to abortion pill, but with tighter rules

The Biden administration had asked the higher court to stay a decision from a Texas judge while the appeal plays out.
- Sarah McCammon
Federal appeals court preserves access to abortion drug but with tighter rules

A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail.
- The Associated Press
The legal battle over mifepristone raises concerns in the the pharmacetical industry

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Harvard Medical School's Ameet Sarpatwari about the legal battle over mifepristone and how it might affect the drug market in the U.S. and beyond.
- Michel Martin
State leaders pledged to transform WA's mental health system by 2023. That hasn't happened

In 2018, Governor Jay Inslee, hospital officials, and state lawmakers announced a plan to transform Washington's mental health care system within five years. But it's now 2023 and much of that plan has yet to bear fruit.
- Sarah Leibovitz
WA State and the fight for reproductive rights

The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to put a hold on a Texas court ruling over access to the abortion medication mifepristone Meanwhile here in Washington, lawmakers are hearing testimony on legislation that would create a pathway to distribute the more than 30 thousand dose stockpile we just purchased.
- Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers

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