U.S. abortion pill access preserved after Supreme Court rejects lower court ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method ofThe justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug. They are appealing a lower court ruling that would roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone.
The drug has been approved for use in the U.S. since 2000 and more than 5 million people have used it. Mifepristone is used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, in more than half of all abortions in the U.S.
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