The Supreme Court has issued a decision on whether the US Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority by expanding access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
with a ruling that will continue to allow the pills to be mailed to patients without an in-person doctor’s visit. Justice Brett Kavanaugh: The ruling is a significant setback for the anti-abortion movement in what was the first major Supreme Court case on reproductive rights since the court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The appeal had been vehemently opposed by the pharmaceutical industry, which warned that a ruling that second-guessed the regulations for mifepristone could open the door to legal challenges targeting all sorts of medications. “In short, given the broad and comprehensive conscience protections guaranteed by federal law, the plaintiffs have not shown—and cannot show—that FDA’s actions will cause them to suffer any conscience injury,” Kavanaugh wrote.
James led a coalition of attorneys who urged the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit decision that restricted how mifepristone was prescribed. “Abortion care is health care, and regardless of what happens on a national level, my office will always do everything in our power to protect and safeguard these rights for New Yorkers,” James said.could come back in the future, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said on CNN, following the Supreme Court’s decision to reject“This does not mean that the legal dispute over mifepristone is over.
Mifepristone blocks a hormone called progesterone, which the body needs for a pregnancy to continue. The hormone helps maintain the inside of the uterus. When the hormone is absent, the uterus expels its contents.
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