Mifepristone, a leading abortion drug, will stay legal for now, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Mifepristone, a leading abortion drug, will stay legal for now, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, as an appeal moves forward on the case that could have wide-reaching implications for reproductive rights and the power of the Food and Drug Administration. The court halted a decision by a conservative Donald Trump–appointed judge in Texas banning the drug as the appeal works its way through the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
After the Fifth Circuit Court decision, the Justice Department filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court to maintain mifepristone’s FDA approvals. Last Friday, Justiceissued an order that halted the restrictions the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals placed on the drug. While that mifepristone will still remain on shelves for now is a victory for access, reproductive rights activists stress that this lawsuit still could have far-reaching consequences.
“We are in the middle of an abortion-access crisis…. There is a lot of pressure put on states that are abortion-access states to care for the patients who no longer have the ability to access that care within their own state. So you add this on top of that, you are perpetuating and exacerbating an already fragile public health system—it’s dangerous,” a reproductive rights advocate said of this latest antiabortion push.
This person added, “This is another attack on abortion in this country, and it is a politically motivated one, not based in science or in the law.”
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