Supreme Court extends freeze on abortion pill restrictions
Summary
The Supreme Court extended a temporary freeze on new rules that limit how the abortion pill mifepristone can be given. This allows pharmacies and doctors to keep prescribing the pill by mail and through telehealth for a few more days.Key Facts
- The Supreme Court extended the freeze until 5 p.m. Thursday.
- Justice Samuel Alito granted the extension after drugmakers asked for it.
- The freeze allows continued mail-order prescribing of mifepristone.
- Anti-abortion groups want to reverse a Biden administration policy that made the pill easier to get.
- That policy removed the rule requiring patients to see a doctor in person before getting the pill.
- The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals supported Louisiana’s challenge against the federal rules.
- Louisiana claims the rules hurt its laws protecting unborn life and increase Medicaid costs for emergency care linked to mifepristone.
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