{"id":1571,"date":"2025-01-24T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/new-research-finds-potential-alternative-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:35:06","slug":"new-research-finds-potential-alternative-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/new-research-finds-potential-alternative-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Finds Potential Alternative to Abortion Pill Mifepristone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/evidence.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/EVIDoa2400209\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> suggests a possible alternative to the abortion pill mifepristone, a drug that continues to be a target of lawsuits and legislation from abortion opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the potential substitute could further complicate the politics of reproductive health because it is also the key ingredient in a contraceptive morning-after pill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new study, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/evidence.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/EVIDoa2400209\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published Thursday in the journal NEJM Evidence<\/a>, involved a drug called ulipristal acetate, the active ingredient in the prescription contraceptive Ella, one of two types of morning-after pills approved in the United States. (The other, Plan B One-Step, which does not require a prescription, contains a different drug and does not work in a way that would terminate a pregnancy, according to scientific evidence.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the study, 133 women who were up to nine weeks\u2019 pregnant took twice the dose of the ulipristal acetate contained in Ella, followed by misoprostol, the second drug used in the typical medication abortion regimen. All but four of the women completed the termination of their pregnancies without further intervention, a 97 percent completion rate that is similar to the regimen using mifepristone. (The others finished the process with additional medication or a procedure.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There were no serious complications, and the study concluded that using ulipristal acetate in the two-drug medication abortion regimen was safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Beverly Winikoff, the lead author of the study and the president of Gynuity Health Projects, a reproductive health research organization, said that after the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion in 2022, she became increasingly interested in a possible role for ulipristal acetate, which has a similar chemical structure to mifepristone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was thinking, there\u2019s maybe something else we can do,\u201d she said. \u201cAnother option. And this one is already on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The political implications of the study are complex because of their potential to blur the line between the public perception of emergency contraception and abortion. For years, abortion opponents have opposed morning-after pills by saying they can cause abortions, and reproductive health experts have countered by pointing to scientific evidence that the pills do not terminate pregnancies but instead act to prevent pregnancy after sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some reproductive health experts are concerned that research showing that a morning-after pill ingredient can be used for abortion could stoke attempts to crack down on emergency contraception and sow confusion that could bolster the larger anti-abortion strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for Students for Life of America, said her organization would \u201cabsolutely\u201d consider litigation over Ella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe pro-life movement should be vindicated,\u201d Ms. Hamrick said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been arguing for years that Ella acts as an abortifacient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mary Ziegler, a law professor and abortion expert at the University of California, Davis, said the study could present challenges for both sides of the abortion debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to put wind in the sails of abortion opponents who have been saying things like contraceptives can be abortifacients,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cThis study being released will be difficult, I think, for abortion rights supporters to manage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Ms. Ziegler said the study\u2019s findings could also be \u201cpolitically risky\u201d for abortion opponents because public support for contraception is high and many voters in conservative states endorsed ballot measures protecting abortion rights. \u201cI think it\u2019s one of those things that\u2019s going to tempt social conservatives to push probably faster than politics would currently permit in the direction of regulating contraception,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think that could backfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reproductive health experts said the new study did not refute the science showing that morning-after pills don\u2019t induce abortions, because it involved a different dose of the drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several experts said that because it was a relatively small first study with no comparison group of patients, more research was needed before ulipristal acetate should be used as a substitute for mifepristone in the two-drug regimen. \u201cWe can\u2019t change clinical practice based on this study,\u201d said Kelly Cleland, a researcher who is the executive director of the American Society for Emergency Contraception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Abortion opponents said they were not surprised by the study\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAfter years of denying ulipristal acetate\u2019s potential to end the life of an embryo, abortion advocates are now starting to use it as a substitute for the abortion drug mifepristone,\u201d Dr. Donna Harrison, director of research for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in a statement. \u201cThe reason for this is simple. Ulipristal and mifepristone function in the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ella was already a target for some conservatives. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-14.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Project 2025<\/a>, a right-wing policy blueprint that has been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-project-2025.html\" title=\"\">strongly tied<\/a> to the new Trump administration, said that Ella should be removed from required insurance coverage of contraception under the Affordable Care Act because it is \u201ca potential abortifacient.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mifepristone, the first pill in the standard two-drug medication abortion regimen, is the only drug specifically approved for abortion in the United States. Typically used through 12 weeks\u2019 gestation, mifepristone stops the development of a pregnancy by blocking the hormone progesterone. The second drug, misoprostol, is taken 24 to 48 hours later and causes contractions similar to a miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ulipristal acetate is in the same class of medications as mifepristone and also blocks the activity of progesterone, a hormone that prepares the uterus to receive and hold an embryo, said Dr. Daniel Grossman, a reproductive health physician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the new study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the study, a 60 milligram dose of ulipristal acetate (double the 30 milligrams in Ella) was substituted for mifepristone and followed by misoprostol, which has various medical uses and has not been targeted as much by abortion opponents. (Misoprostol can also facilitate an abortion on its own, but is considered more effective in a combination regimen.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reproductive health experts said they welcomed the search for alternatives to mifepristone because abortion opponents have been waging efforts to sharply restrict the medication across the country, most notably with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/13\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-abortion-pill-ruling-future.html\" title=\"\">a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration<\/a>. The Supreme Court rejected that lawsuit last year, ruling that the initial plaintiffs lacked standing to sue, but the suit has since been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/21\/health\/abortion-pill-mifepristone-lawsuit.html#:~:text=The%20original%20lawsuit%2C%20filed%20in,F.D.A.'s%20decisions%20on%20mifepristone.\" title=\"\">revived with three states as plaintiffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Grossman, who wrote <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/evidence.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/EVIDe2400460\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an editorial<\/a> about the study, said the prospect of a substitute for mifepristone was \u201ccertainly a promising finding.\u201d But, he added, \u201cif because of this new evidence that at higher doses, ulipristal acetate could cause an abortion, that were to lead to ulipristal acetate being taken off the market for emergency contraception, that would be really, really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Perrigo, the company that manufactures Ella, issued a statement saying that because the new study tested ulipristal acetate at a higher dose than one pill of Ella, and in combination with misoprostol, \u201cthere continues to be no evidence to show that, on its own, Ella causes an abortion.\u201d The company added that \u201cElla is an F.D.A.-approved emergency contraception pill that acts before pregnancy can occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study was conducted in Mexico City and was co-led by researchers there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists have long understood that hormone-based drugs may be able to play different functions at different doses along the spectrum of a woman\u2019s reproductive health cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Europe, researchers including Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physician and founder of telemedicine organizations that provide abortion pills globally, are studying low doses of mifepristone as a weekly birth control pill. Dr. Gomperts said she considered the new ulipristal acetate study sufficient to prescribe the drug off-label in combination with misoprostol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe more uses we have for these medications, the harder it will be for people to take them away,\u201d said Dr. Paul Blumenthal, an emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University who was in an advisory group for the study.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Plan B is a much more widely used morning-after pill in the United States, but Ella is considered more effective for some women, including people who are overweight. Plan B is intended to be taken within three days after unprotected sex, while Ella can be taken within five days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both pills prevent pregnancy by blocking ovulation, the release of eggs from the ovaries that occurs before eggs can be fertilized, scientific studies have shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The claim by some abortion opponents that morning-after pills are abortion drugs is based on a theory that they might also prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. Most scientific research has not found that to be the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, despite <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/06\/health\/research\/morning-after-pills-dont-block-implantation-science-suggests.html\" title=\"\">scientific evidence to the contrary detailed in an investigation by The New York Times,<\/a> the F.D.A.-approved label and packaging for Plan B One-Step said that while the pill worked by blocking ovulation, there was a possibility it might prevent implantation. In 2022, the agency <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/23\/health\/morning-after-pills-abortion-fda.html\" title=\"\">changed the language<\/a> to make it clear that Plan B acts only before fertilization, \u201cwill not work if you\u2019re already pregnant, and will not affect an existing pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ella-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2023\/05\/Prescribing-Information_ella-ulipristal-acetate-tablet_June-2021.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">F.D.A. label<\/a> for Ella says that its \u201clikely primary mechanism of action\u201d is to stop or delay ovulation. The label adds that the medication may also affect implantation. Studies in recent years, however, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31351035\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">suggest that Ella does not operate by blocking a fertilized egg from implanting<\/a> in the womb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/health\/abortion-pill-ella.html\">Source link 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