The FDA made a regulatory change that may allow retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills, effectively expanding access as more red states move to ban or restrict access to the procedure.
citizen petitions requesting that the FDA add restrictions on mifepristone, but both were rejected.
"It would effectively result in a nationwide ban on this safe, effective, common method of abortion, even in those states that have protected access" and guarantee access to the procedure, she added.Following the Dobbs decision, the number of procedures in the U.S. declined from 87,010 in June to 79,620 in August, or 9%, according toA total of 12 states have near-total bans in effect, according to the, which expects at least half of U.S. states to enact abortion bans or restrictions.
Some legal experts say that anti-abortion forces will have a hard time prevailing in what's the first such challenge to an FDA approval. "I think the prospect of an injunction is unlikely because the plaintiffs will have to show irreparable harm, and I think it's really hard to understand how there's irreparable harm," Lee added.
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