US Supreme Court considers future of abortion pill
A ruling that would restrict access to an abortion pill across the US will soon take effect unless the conservative-dominated Supreme Court intervenes.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is set to decide the future of the pill's access in the US. Here is how we got here:The case now being considered by the top court arrived there after a federal judge in Texas ruled the FDA had not properly considered the drug's health effects when the agency approved it in 2000.
The US justice department and Danco Laboratories, which manufactures the drug, then called on the Supreme Court to intervene, asking it to reverse the ban and restrictions on the pill. These conditions include requiring that the drug be taken in the presence of a physician, that patients cannot receive the pill by post, and that the window for use of the pill shortens from up to 10 weeks of pregnancy to seven.Critics say that by overriding the FDA's approval, the court in Texas has usurped the federal health agency's remit to regulate food, medicine, and medical devices.
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