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Court upholds government block on abortion pill website

The court dismissed the Canadian nonprofit's case because the pills were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea, as well as on procedural grounds.

2026.8.2

With the abortion pill unavailable, Korean women resort to cancer drug to end pregnancies

Despite a legal change, mifepristone remains inaccessible, leaving little option but to an immunosuppressant that takes weeks to work.

2026.7.31

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Boxes of Mifepristone, the first pill in a medical abortion, are seen at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, on April 9, 2024. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

U.S. FDA has delayed abortion pill safety study, Bloomberg News reports

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed a review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary's request, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

2025.12.9

Activists from a human rights group advocating for the right to safe abortion urge the government to fulfill its pledge to introduce medical abortion pills during a press conference marking International Safe Abortion Day, which falls on Sept. 28, in front of the Admiral Yi Sun-sin statue at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on Sept. 23. [NEWS1]

Despite ban removal, women's access to abortion pills faces legal void in Korea

Six years after Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down the country’s abortion ban, women seeking to end a pregnancy still face a legal void. The government has yet to approve abortion pills, and thousands are turning to the internet.

2025.10.21

Abortion pill sold via internet lacks formal regulatory approval

An abortion pill illegal in Korea may not be approved for some time despite it being sold here via the internet and despite a clamoring by activists for the regulators to allow it into the country.

2022.4.13

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abortion pill

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U.S. FDA has delayed abortion pill safety study, Bloomberg News reports

Despite ban removal, women's access to abortion pills faces legal void in Korea

Abortion pill sold via internet lacks formal regulatory approval