The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on Monday (local time) to temporarily uphold federal regulations governing the use of oral abortion pills. A lower court ruling temporarily restricting the abortion drug mifepristone, which is scheduled to go into effect this weekend, has been temporarily suspended.
According to the Associated Press and The Guardian, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gave a five-day grace period in the order signed today, allowing judges to revoke the approval of the FDA-approved drug mifepristone in a short period of time. You can decide whether or not you need to make it work.
Access to mifepristone, currently the most common abortion drug in the United States, is unchanged through at least April 19.
This temporary suspension of judgment gives higher courts more time to consider restrictions imposed by lower courts. The US Department of Justice and Danco, the drug maker that produced mifepristone, had asked the Supreme Court to intervene the day before to stop the restrictions.
Restrictions that were due to go into effect this weekend include restricting the use of mifepristone after seven weeks of pregnancy and banning delivery of the drug by mail.
Previously, the US FDA officially approved mifepristone, an oral abortion pill, in 2000, but Judge Matthew Caxmarix of the Texas District Court made mifepristone illegal on the 7th and banned its purchase and distribution throughout the United States.
On the same day, regardless of another federal district judge in Washington state ruling to the contrary, the Biden administration immediately appealed, and a three-member 5th federal appellate court in New Orleans, Louisiana dismissed the abortion pill illegal ruling by a 2-1 vote. . All three judges were confirmed during Republican administrations such as Presidents Trump and Bush.
However, the appeals court banned mifepristone, an abortion drug allowed since 2016, from prescribing and receiving by mail, just like the first trial. Again, as in the past, the restriction on pregnant women to directly visit a doctor, receive prescriptions for abortion pills, and receive medications directly has been restored.
Source: Donga
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