
The US Supreme Court has kept the government’s approval of a widely used abortion drug in place, while one of the biggest battles over abortion rights since the end of Roe v Wadecontinues in federal courts.
Justices on the nation’s highest court have paused a lower court ruling that challenge the government’s 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, part of a two-drug protocol for medication abortion, the most common form of abortion in the US.