The Supreme Court Will Decide on Abortion-Pill Access

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a legal challenge to the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medication abortions. The pill, which was approved more than 20 years ago, will remain available in states where abortion is legal while the case plays out.

It’ll be the first time the conservative-majority Court will weigh in on abortion since it overturned Roe v. Wade, and it could radically change access to abortion care nationwide as well as the FDA’s regulatory authority. Even before the Dobbs decision, medication abortion accounted for 54 percent of abortions in the U.S. Since then, abortion pills have been a powerful tool for people to safely end a pregnancy on their own at home in the 16 states that have banned or effectively banned abortion. This dynamic has made both opponents and supporters of abortion rights deeply invested in either cutting off or expanding access to the pills.

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