The biggest battle over abortion rights since Roe v. Wade is over for now—and the Supreme Court has averted a major crisis for reproductive healthcare.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court just handed down its most important ruling on reproductive rights since its 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that protected the national right to have an abortion. The court affirmed the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. In a 9-0 decision in FDA v.
In the United States, pills are now more common than abortion procedures, accounting for more than six out of 10 abortions in 2023, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Despite mifepristone’s established safety record, a group of antiabortion activists and doctors known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine filed a lawsuit in November 2022 seeking to invalidate the FDA’s approval of the drug, claiming it’s too dangerous to be on the market.
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