Samuel Alito imposes five-day stay after ruling by Texas federal judge that would have imposed restrictions on mifepristone
justice Samuel Alito has temporarily blocked lower court rulings which would have imposed temporaryimposed a five-day stay after a ruling by a conservative federal judge in Texas, parts of which were then upheld by a conservative appellate court based in New Orleans. For now, access to medication abortion – the most common method of pregnancy termination in the US – is unchanged until at least Wednesday 19 April.
The restrictions that were set to take effect this weekend include limiting mifepristone’s use after seven weeks of pregnancy – it is currently approved until 10 weeks – and banning the delivery of the drug by mail. The justice department wrote in its appeal to the high court on Friday that the restrictions would create “profound disruption and grave harm”.
The supreme court was widely expected to take up the case, in part because of a ruling from a Washington state district court that conflicts with the decisions out of Texas and Louisiana. The Washington ruling orders the FDA to maintain the status quo for the drug in 17 states and the District of Columbia. The FDA faces an “obvious threat of irreparable harm” from conflicting court orders, the justice department writes.
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