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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail

two hands holding a small box of pills
An abortion-rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills. Photograph: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP

The US supreme court upheld nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision on Thursday.

Louisiana sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October in an effort to curtail the regulatory agency’s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely, arguing that it interfered with the state’s ban on abortion.

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