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In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States has rejected a bid to restrict people's access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. The drug is one half of a two-pill regimen prescribed for medication abortions, which made up more than 60% of all abortions in the U.S. last year.
Telehealth abortions are as safe and effective as those prescribed in person, but in a small percentage of cases, people may experience serious side effects or require additional treatment to end their pregnancy. The plaintiffs argued that, if tasked with treating such patients, AHM members would have to divert resources from other patients, and in addition, treating patients with these side effects would violate the doctors' moral stances around abortion.
Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. Initially, a Texas judge ruled that the FDA's original approval of the pill in 2000 should be overturned. That ruling was appealed, and an appellate court said that the drug's approval should stand unchallenged. —Are 'home remedies' for abortion safe? However, the appellate court wanted to roll back regulatory changes that the FDA made in 2016 and 2021, on the grounds that the FDA didn't adequately follow procedure or explain its reasoning when it made these changes.
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