Medical and advocacy groups are urging the FDA to add miscarriage management as a use case for mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medical abortions, and ease the restrictions around who can prescribe it. Via 19thnews
that happen without any kind of medical or surgical threatmet — often within a few hours if not more than a few days, compared with up to eight weeks. People who start medication management of their miscarriage are less likely to require a later surgical procedure to empty the uterus.This past January, Hannah was thrilled to learn that she was pregnant for the first time.
Just shy of 11 weeks pregnant, Hannah started to hemorrhage at home, and returned to the emergency room where she was treated, but her miscarriage still had not resolved on its own. Hannah asked for medication management to conclude her miscarriage and was shocked when she was told by the ER doctor that though she wished they could give that to her, they could not. She was not legally able to do so because she wasn’t an authorized provider of mifepristone as defined by the REMS.
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