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The Supreme Court\u00a0is leaving women\u2019s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on\u00a0the drug, mifepristone,\u00a0to take effect.<\/p>\n

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Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s order Monday allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. It prevents restrictions on mifepristone imposed by\u00a0a federal appeals court\u00a0from taking effect for the time being.<\/p>\n

The court is dealing with its latest\u00a0abortion\u00a0controversy four years after its conservative majority\u00a0overturned Roe v. Wade\u00a0and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.<\/p>\n

The case before the court stems from a lawsuit Louisiana filed to roll back the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s rules on how mifepristone can be prescribed. The state claims the policy undermines the ban there, and it questions the safety of the drug, which was first approved in 2000 and has repeatedly been deemed safe and effective by FDA scientists.<\/p>\n

Lower courts concluded that Louisiana is likely to prevail, and a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail access and telehealth visits should be suspended while the case plays out.<\/p>\n

The drug is most often used for abortion in combination with another drug, misoprostol.\u00a0Medication abortions\u00a0accounted for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023, the last year for which statistics are available.<\/p>\n

The current dispute is similar to one that reached the court three years ago.<\/p>\n

Lower courts then also sought to restrict access to mifepristone, in a case brought by physicians who oppose abortion. They filed suit in the months after the court overturned Roe.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court blocked the 5th Circuit ruling from taking effect over the dissenting votes of Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas. Then, in 2024, the high court unanimously dismissed the doctors\u2019 suit, reasoning they did not have the legal right, or standing, to sue.<\/p>\n

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In the current dispute, mainstream medical groups, the pharmaceutical industry and Democratic members of Congress have weighed in cautioning the court against limiting access to the drug. Pharmaceutical companies said a ruling for abortion opponents would upend the drug approval process.<\/p>\n

The FDA has eased a number of restrictions initially placed on the drug, including who can prescribe it, how it is dispensed and what kinds of safety complications must be reported.<\/p>\n

Despite those determinations, abortion opponents have been challenging the safety of mifepristone for more than 25 years. They have filed a series of petitions and lawsuits against the agency, generally alleging that it violated federal law by overlooking safety issues with the pill.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0administration has been unusually quiet at the Supreme Court. It declined to file a written brief recommending what the court should do, even though federal regulations are at issue.<\/p>\n

The case puts Trump\u2019s Republican administration in a difficult place. Trump has relied on the political support of anti-abortion groups but has also seen\u00a0ballot question\u00a0and poll results that show\u00a0Americans generally support abortion rights.<\/p>\n

Both sides took the silence as an implicit endorsement of the appellate ruling. Alito is both the justice in charge of handling emergency appeals from Louisiana and the author of the 2022 decision that declared abortion is not a constitutional right and returned the issue to the states.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAll of the Supreme Court justices were questioned about their judicial beliefs on the legal precedent of Roe v. Wade during their senate confirmation hearings. Here\u2019s what they had to say.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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