A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the legality of the abortion pill mifepristone, but placed new limitations on its usage and effectively banned its distribution in more than a dozen states.
The ruling came after a lower Texas court had blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the nation’s most commonly used abortion method less than a year after the, and set the stage for the conservative-led high court to take up the mifepristone case.
The lone dissenter, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, was inclined to put the lower court ruling on hold to allow for oral arguments. Either or both sides could take it to the Supreme Court, and opponents of mifepristone could move to keep the lower court ruling in effect. Meanwhile, a separate federal judge in Washington last week ruled that the FDA could not take moves to block the accessibility of mifepristone in 17 blue states that had sued to keep it on the market.of misoprostol and the White House was also said to have contingency plans in place.
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