Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended a temporary pause on a lower court order that imposed limitations on the widely used abortion pill mifepristone to Friday at 11:59 p.m.
the most significant part of the district court's ruling — halting mifepristone's approval — but unwound the FDA's policy changes since 2016 that relaxed the rules surrounding the drug.
Hours after the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to step in, Alito issued an administrative stay, which ensured mifepristone would remain available while the court considered the issue. Medication abortions have become increasingly common and accounted for more than half of all abortions in the U.S. in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mifepristone is taken in combination with a second medicine, misoprostol, to terminate an early pregnancy.
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