FDA still has the power to give expanded access to mifepristone in major victory to abortion rights supporters
pill will remain unchanged, the US supreme court ruled on Thursday in a unanimous 9-0 decision, handing a major victory to abortion rights supporters who feared that the court thatAbortion rights supporters protest outside the supreme court as it hears arguments in the abortion pill case in Washington DC on 26 March 2024.
“Because the plaintiffs do not prescribe, manufacture, sell, or advertise mifepristone or sponsor a competing drug, the plaintiffs suffer no direct monetary injuries from FDA’s actions relaxing regulation of mifepristone,” Kavanaugh wrote. “Nor do they suffer injuries to their property, or to the value of their property, from FDA’s actions. Because the plaintiffs do not use mifepristone, they obviously can suffer no physical injuries from FDA’s actions relaxing regulation of mifepristone.
“This challenge to mifepristone was meritless from the start. Abortion medication is safe and effective,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat,. “Make no mistake: Donald Trump and Republican politicians will not stop marching us toward a nationwide abortion ban. We must protect reproductive freedom everywhere.
two years ago, and women lost a fundamental freedom,” Joe Biden said in a statement. “It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states.”
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