Japan's health ministry approved the drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancy.
Abortion is legal in Japan up to 22 weeks but consent is usually required from a spouse or partner, and until now a surgical procedure had been the only option.
The drugmaker filed its product, a two-step treatment of mifepristone and misoprostol, for approval in Japan in December 2021. The approval of the pill to end pregnancies up to nine weeks follows a ministry panel endorsement, which was postponed for a month as thousands of public opinions were submitted.
The US Supreme Court has temporarily preserved access to the widely used abortion drug, freezing rulings by lower courts that would have banned or severely restricted its availability.
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