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Government & Politics / Health Care / Legal

Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Access to Widely Used Abortion Medication

The justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal right to sue over the federal Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication, mifepristone, and the FDA's subsequent actions to ease access to it. read more >
Government & Politics / Health Care / Legal

Supreme Court Again Confronts the Issue of Abortion, This Time Over Access to Widely Used Medication

Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents on Tuesday will ask the high court to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to the medication mifepristone. read more >
Government & Politics / Health Care / Legal

The Supreme Court Will Rule on Limits on a Commonly Used Abortion Medication

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion […] read more >
Health Care / Legal

Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill for Now

The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They are appealing a lower court ruling that would roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone. read more >
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Government & Politics / Health Care / Legal

High Court Temporarily Blocks Restrictions on Abortion Pill

The court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright. read more >
Health Care / Legal

Competing Abortion Pill Rulings Sow Alarm, Confusion

The growing restrictions could particularly hurt people who don't have the resources to travel to such places as California and New York to get in-clinic abortions. read more >
Health Care

Instagram and Facebook Remove Posts Offering Abortion Pills

Abortion pills, however, can legally be obtained through the mail after an online consultation from prescribers who have undergone certification and training. read more >