In a 9-0 ruling, the high court shot down a challenge to the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, allowing the drug to continue to be prescribed online.
Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Walgreens said Thursday, March 2, 2023, that it will not start selling mifepristone, an abortion pill, in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did that.The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed a case that would have limited access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion.
It has also become a key tool for people seeking to circumvent state abortion bans. Because these medications can be prescribed through , health care providers in a handful of states where abortion is legal have begun to mail the pills to patients in states with bans. Thursday’s decision means that the pill will remain accessible in states where abortion is legal. Still, the decision is hardly the end of the fight over medication abortion, either on a state or federal level. of the Supreme Court’s ruling, some states sought to criminalize the drugs used in medication abortion, including Louisiana, which in May issued a law declaring both “
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