Biden administration urges Supreme Court to hear case on major abortion pill

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. (Allen G. Breed/AP)

The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider a lower-court ruling that would dramatically limit access to the key abortion pill, mifepristone.

In its petition obtained by NPR, the Justice Department argued that the abortion pill is many women's "best method" to terminate early pregnancies.