JUST IN: The Supreme Court has temporarily restored access to the abortion pill mifepristone, freezing until Wednesday an appeals court decision that had imposed restrictions on the drug.
on a lower court ruling that restricts access to the abortion drug mifepristone until Wednesday night. Alito also instructed that any responses be filed by April 18 at noon.to block a federal appeals court decision that limits access to the abortion drug mifepristone.Portions of a Texas district court's order that limits the drug would have otherwise taken effect April 15, but Alito's order put it on pause.
The administration brief calls the lower court rulings"unprecedented" and says they"unleashed regulatory chaos" by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone.
"I was sitting back there, trying to think about how many times I've stood on these steps saying, 'No, we are not going to accept what you're handing us,'"said Jenny Lawson, vice president of organizing and engagement campaigns with Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
"It was not a choice. It was medically necessary," she said."The doctors were able to use methotrexate and mifepristone to treat me. And without this important life-saving combination of medication, who knows what the outcome would have been?"
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