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- In agreement. It's hard to remember a time when there seemed to be consensus on anything related to abortion—but that's just what happened, at least among the nine Supreme Court justices. In a unanimous decision yesterday, the court rejected a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone.
The closely watched case had threatened to curtail access to the most widely used form of abortion that has become even more critical as some states drastically limit in-person abortion care. None other than Justice Brett Kavanaugh—who was in the conservative 5-4 majority overturning Roe v. Wade—wrote the court's opinion.
