The court has paused a controversial lower court ruling until midnight Friday.
April 7 to throw out mifepristone’s approval by the Food and Drug Administration, siding with anti-abortion advocates who argued the FDA shouldn’t have approved it.that order on April 12, keeping mifepristone broadly legal while the case is appealed, but reinstating some restrictions on the drug that require it to be dispensed in person only for the first seven weeks of pregnancy.
The Biden Administration had asked the Supreme Court to pause Kacsmaryk’s ruling while the case makes its way through the 5th Circuit—keeping mifepristone broadly legal without restrictions—or else take up the case for oral arguments.
The Supreme Court will either decide to extend its pause on mifepristone while the appeals process plays out or let the pause on Kacsmaryk’s ruling expire, which would pave the way for mifepristone to be restricted. It could also decide to take up the case for oral arguments, rather than letting it play out in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals first.
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