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Anti-abortion groups urge US top court to restrict abortion pill

Demonstrators protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, over abortion rights in the United States [File: Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press]

Anti-abortion groups have submitted a filing urging the United States Supreme Court to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone, challenging the medication’s federal approval and asking the justices to implement the curbs ordered by a conservative judge in Texas.

On Tuesday, the challengers called on the Supreme Court to reject emergency requests by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration and the pill’s manufacturer to halt the preliminary injunction issued on April 7 by US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.

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