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Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion

medication mifepristone

By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su-
preme Court on Tuesday seemed
likely to preserve access to a
medication that was used in
nearly two-thirds of all abortions in
the U.S. last year, in the court’s first
abortion case since conservative
justices overturned Roe v. Wade
two years ago.
In nearly 90 minutes of arguments,
a consensus appeared to emerge
that the abortion opponents who
challenged the FDA’s approval
of the medication, mifepristone,
and subsequent actions to ease
access to it, lack the legal right
or standing to sue.
Such a decision would leave in
place the current rules that al-
low patients to receive the drug
through the mail, without any
need for an in-person visit with
a doctor, and to take the medi-
cation to induce an abortion
through 10 weeks of pregnancy. An abortion- rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights
groups rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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