The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mifepristone must be obtained in person, a decision the country’s highest court has temporarily blocked.
A pill used in most U.S. abortions has been ensnared in politics for years, and many Americans wonder whether it will be restricted under the new Republican administration in Washington.
Lawmakers in some states are pushing measures to crack down on abortion pills or penalize women who obtain abortions.
A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher dose as an abortion drug, providing a possible alternative to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in the most common type of abortion in the United States.
The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S. Abortion opponents want the high court in arguments Tuesday to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to a medication called mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions last year.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States.
On Friday, the Supreme Court temporarily kept in place federal rules for the use of an abortion drug while it takes time to fully consider the issues raised in a court challenge.
The U.S. Supreme Court originally planned to weigh in on the abortion pill case by Wednesday night, but extended the hold on the Amarillo ruling until Friday at midnight.
Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone that has been widely available for more than 20 years.
A conservative judge in Texas has raised questions about an effort to overturn the decades-old approval of a leading abortion drug, in a case that could threaten the country’s most common method to end pregnancies.