Journalist and Author of Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of A Revolution in Abortion Care
rePROS Fight Back
"In Brazil in the 1990s, women discovered using misoprostol for safe, self-managed abortion. In 1980 in France, mifepristone was discovered and in 1988, approved. Approval in the U.S. occurred shortly thereafter, in 2000.
Rebecca Kelliher, journalist and author of Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care, sits down to talk with us about her new book exploring the history of misoprostol and mifepristone."
Los Angeles Review of Books
"Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”
"Rebecca Kelliher’s astonishing new book about the global history of abortion pills, Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care, could hardly be timelier. I spoke with Kelliher at her home in New York about her reporting process ahead of the book’s release."
KCRW
"Since the FDA established a two-drug regimen for abortions, the pills have been a lifeline for those choosing to end their pregnancies. Now, two-thirds of abortions in America are now medication abortions, but according to author Rebecca Kelliher, it’s why the American anti-abortion movement has targeted the transportation of those pills across state lines."
He's Not Wrong
"This week on He’s Not Wrong, we’re joined by journalist and author Rebecca Kelliher, whose groundbreaking new book, Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care, traces how two small tablets - mifepristone and misoprostol - sparked a global revolution in abortion care. But this story isn’t just about medicine. It’s about power, control, and the political panic erupting around women’s autonomy.
In this urgent conversation, we unpack how abortion pills became a battleground for science, morality, and democracy itself. From underground activist networks in Argentina to courtrooms in Texas, Rebecca reveals the hidden resistance that built access to care—despite governments trying to stop it."
Rewire News Group
"Journalist Rebecca Kelliher’s recent book, Just Pills, traces the history of abortion medications, starting with misoprostol’s whispered origins among Brazilian women in the 1980s as a “pill that makes your period back” through decades of clinical trials and widespread use in almost 100 countries.
Rewire News Group spoke with Kelliher about abortion politics, the disinformation that swirls around reproductive rights, and inspiration from abroad."
WLIW NPR
"Rebecca Kelliher joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM to discuss her book, Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care, released in September."
The Persistent
"Kelliher’s book, published in September, chronicles in rigorous detail how two drugs, misoprostol and mifepristone, came to be at the center of the culture wars, describing the political and scientific breakthroughs that had to take place for the medications to be paired up and prescribed together, creating a safe and effective abortion medication that is usually taken at home, with a 98% success rate in the earliest weeks of pregnancy."
Mornings with Zerlina
