> Abortion pill Mifepristone will remain available for now after Supreme Court ruling
Abortion pill Mifepristone will remain available for now after Supreme Court ruling
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The Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug mifepristone to take effect.
The court is dealing with a new abortion controversy less than a year after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
At stake now is whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone ordered by a lower court to take effect while a legal challenge to the medication's Food and Drug Administration approval continues.
The justices had at first given themselves a Wednesday evening deadline in a fast-moving case from Texas in which abortion opponents are seeking to roll back FDA approval of mifepristone, which is used in the most common method of abortion in the United States.
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-abortion-pill-restrictions/507-411d6a4a-65d8-4053-b5ce-c7730698126b
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