WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to preserve full and easy access to the abortion medication that has become the most-used method of ending early pregnancies.
He was responding to a 2-1 ruling by a conservative appeals court that would forbid sending the abortion pills through the mail and restrict their use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone in 2000, declaring it safe and effective when used in combination with a second drug, misopostal.
