BREAKING The Supreme Court's decision preserves access to the abortion pill while the legal battle in a lower court in Texas plays out
The Supreme Court on Friday granted a full stay in a case concerning the Food and Drug Administration's approval of -- and access to -- the widely used abortion pill mifepristone.The court previously gave itself more time to decide whether it would wade into legal battle over a Texas judge's unprecedented ruling suspending the FDA's approval of mifepristone more than 20 years ago.
Medication abortion quickly became the new focus of legal battles over abortion access following the Supreme Court's decision to overrule Roe v. Wade last June. Kacsmaryk's order was partially blocked by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, though that court imposed restrictions that would prevent mifepristone from being sent to patients by mail.
Alliance Defending Freedom, representing opponents to the abortion pill, countered the administration's concerns amounted to a "sky-is-falling-argument."
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