5Photo© hindustantimes.comUS Supreme Court maintains access to the abortion pill mifepristone
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The judges ruled 9-0 on Thursday, overturning a lower court's decision last year to limit access to the medication mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all abortions in the country.
In 2016 and 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made efforts to make it easier to prescribe and distribute the medication.
A recent study found that the pill, which was approved by the FDA in 2000, is used in more than 60 per cent of abortions in the United States, according to Al Jazeera.
“ It does not change the fact that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, and women lost a fundamental freedom. It does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the…
Joe Biden,
US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone
“ Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, or forced to go to court to plead for care that their doctor recommended or to travel hundreds of miles for care,
Joe Biden,
US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone
“ But let's be clear: attacks on medication abortion are part of Republican elected officials' extreme and dangerous agenda to ban abortion nationwide,
Joe Biden,
US Supreme Court maintains access to the abortion pill mifepristone
“ Today's decision does not change the fact that the fight for reproductive freedom continues,
Joe Biden,
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