Supreme Court rejects bid to restrict access to abortion pill

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Supreme Court rejects bid to restrict access to ********* pill

Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical ********* during pregnancy and manage early miscarriage. 

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WASHINGTON — The 

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 on Thursday rejected a challenge to the ********* pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used ***** can remain widely available.

The court found unanimously that the group of anti-********* doctors who questioned the Food and ***** Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue. As a result, the lawsuit will be dismissed. 

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, wrote that while plaintiffs have “sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective ********* and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone,” that does not mean they have a federal case.

The plaintiffs ******* to show they had suffered any injury, meaning that “the federal courts are the wrong forum for addressing the plaintiffs’ concerns about FDA’s actions,” he added.

“The plaintiffs may present their concerns and objections to the president and FDA in the regulatory process or to Congress and the president in the legislative process,” Kavanaugh wrote. “And they may also express their views about ********* and mifepristone to fellow citizens, including in the political and electoral processes.”

By throwing out the case on such grounds, the court avoided reaching a decision on the legal merits of whether the FDA acted lawfully in lifting various restrictions, including one making the ***** obtainable via mail, meaning the same issues could yet return to the court in another case.

Another regulatory decision left in place means women can still obtain the pill within 10 weeks of gestation instead of seven. 

Likewise a decision to allow health care providers other than physicians to dispense the pill will remain in effect.

The ruling comes two years after the court, which has a 6-3 ************* majority, overturned the landmark ********* rights decision Roe v. Wade, which led to a wave of new ********* restrictions in ************* states.

Then, the court suggested it was removing itself from the political debate over *********, but with litigation continuing to rage over ********* access, the justices are continuing to play a pivotal role. 

The mifepristone dispute is not the only ********* case currently before the court. It is also due to decide whether 

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prevents doctors in emergency rooms from performing abortions when a pregnant woman is facing dangerous complications.

Mifepristone is used as part of a two-***** FDA-approved regimen that is now the most common form of ********* in the ******* States.

********* is effectively banned altogether in 14 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that backs ********* rights.

The FDA had the backing of the pharmaceutical industry, which has warned that any second-guessing of the approval process by untrained federal judges could 

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The legal challenge was brought by doctors and other medical professionals represented by the ************* ********** legal group Alliance Defending Freedom.

Last year, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a sweeping ruling that completely invalidated the FDA’s approval of the pill, leading to panic among *********-rights activists that it would be banned nationwide.

The Supreme Court last April put that ruling on hold, meaning the pill remained widely available while litigation continued.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in August then narrowed Kacsmaryk’s decision but left in place his conclusion that the FDA’s move to lift restrictions starting in 2016 was unlawful.

Both sides appealed to the Supreme Court. The court in December took up the Biden administration’s appeal in defense of the later FDA decisions, but it opted against hearing the challenge to the original approval of mifepristone in 2000. 

The Supreme Court focused solely on the later FDA action, including the initial 2021 decision that made the ***** available by mail, which was finalized last year.

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