Kristi Upson-Saia

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Kristi Upson-Saia is an historian of ancient Greek and Roman medicine. She is the co-Founder and co-Director of ReMeDHe, a scholarly working group on the intersection of religion, medicine, disability, and health in antiquity, and she is the author of Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE): A Sourcebook.

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The Mifepristone Case Hinges on Whether or not Pregnancy Should be Considered an “Illness” – What Can We Learn When We Look for Medical Precedent?

By Kristi Upson-Saia • June 21, 2023

In November 2022, a group of physicians filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) seeking to revoke their approval of mifepristone, one of the medications in the abortion regimen that accounts for more than half of abortions in the U.S. The plaintiffs argue that the FDA was remiss in approving the drug… Read more →