US Supreme Court Skeptical Of Limiting Access To Abortion Pill

On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court seemed unsure about restricting access to the abortion pill called mifepristone. Reports say the court suggested it probably won’t support such restrictions and questioned whether it’s right to challenge the drug’s federal approval.

The case is about choices made by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make it easier to use mifepristone since 2016. Some anti-abortion groups and doctors, like the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a group of doctors and activists against abortion, are questioning the safety of the drug.

In November 2022, they filed a lawsuit saying that mifepristone, which the FDA first approved in 2000, is not safe and that the FDA wrongly made it more accessible.