What is misoprostol? Crucial questions about the other abortion drug

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Anti-abortion groups have also floated other strategies, including petitioning the FDA to require doctors who prescribe abortion pills to bag any fetal tissue as medical waste, Cohen reported.
61% : While the Texas lawsuit filed by anti-abortion group the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine also sought to ban the use of misoprostol in abortions, the group did not ask the judge to rescind the medication's FDA approval, and Kacsmaryk's ruling addressed only mifepristone.
60% : Misoprostol might be more difficult to fully remove from the market because of its common use as an ulcer medication, but anti-abortion lawmakers could still restrict its use.
51% : The World Health Organization includes misoprostol-only procedures among its recommended methods of abortion, and the drug is commonly used on its own around the world.
49% : "It has been used around the world for abortion for many years because it is so much more easily available and cheaper" than mifepristone, Upadhyay said.
43% : Its use in abortion was pioneered by a group of feminists in Brazil, where surgical abortions were largely inaccessible, said Ushma Upadhyay, a professor with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.

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