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Only three women were convicted of having an illegal abortion between 1861 and November 2022, when the law was changed to allow women to take abortion pills at home up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to ease its new restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, citing the drug’s proven safety record and arguing the new limits are unnecessary.

The French scientist who created the abortion pill has died at the age of 98.

He said this was necessary due to "new data," which is actually a non-reviewed "study" by a Christian right organization falsely claiming abortion pills are dangerous — a "study" that was immediately debunked by experts.

The issue was in the news again this week when Nicola Packer, 45, was cleared by a jury of "unlawfully administering" herself with abortion pills at home during a coronavirus lockdown in 2020.