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Supreme Court Rejects Effort To Restrict Abortion Pill Mifepristone


The Supreme Court rejected an effort to restrict the abortion pill mifepristone from the marketplace, ruling unanimously that the plaintiffs lacked standing. A number of anti-abortion medical associations and and several doctors challenged the Food and Drug Administration’s relaxed restrictions on access to the drug. But the justices ruled that the plaintiffs lacked sufficient standing, […]

“The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion. The ruling was closely watched in light of the high court’s decision two years ago in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe vs. Wade. Just a couple blocks away from the court today, Trump was meeting with GOP lawmakers in a behind-closed-doors gathering to talk about his agenda should he win another term.

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