The request creates an opening for the Supreme Court to decide when and how mifepristone can be prescribed and distributed to end early pregnancy.
, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a group that supports abortion rights. If mifepristone is taken off the market, abortion providers will have to provide only surgical abortions, or use a medication abortion regimen that includes only misoprostol.requires three doses of four pills each.
If the court returns to pre-2016 regulations, the company said, women would be directed to take three times the amount of mifepristone currently listed on the label — and to follow a dosing regimen that is slightly less effective and could lead to more surgical abortions.The challenge to mifepristone was brought by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, an association of antiabortion doctors and others.
or when it removed some restrictions years later — allowing the use of mifepristone through 10 weeks of pregnancy, for instance, instead of seven.— is the sole sitting judge. He agreed with the challengers and issued a ruling that for the first time suspended FDA approval of a human drug despite objections from the agency.
Those challenging the current rules for mifepristone will be given an opportunity to respond before the justices decide whether to take the case. Danco’s lawyers told the Supreme Court Friday that the doctors behind the lawsuit — who do not prescribe mifepristone or regularly treat patients who have taken the drug — do not have legal grounds or standing to bring the lawsuit.This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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