New York State to Stockpile Five-Year Supply of Abortion Drug

New York is the latest state to announce that it will stockpile abortion medication after a federal judge in Texas last week suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of mifepristone.

The state health department will begin purchasing 150,000 doses of the drug misoprostol, a five-year supply, to meet anticipated demand, Governor Kathy Hochul said Tuesday. Misoprostol, which can be taken on its own to induce abortions, is usually paired with mifepristone to increase the effectiveness of terminating a pregnancy. It isn’t affected by the Texas ruling.