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US access to abortion pill mifepristone in limbo after conflicting judicial rulings

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

Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone that has been widely available for more than 20 years.

For now, the drug the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 appeared to remain at least immediately available in wake of two separate rulings that were issued in quick succession by federal judges in Texas and Washington.

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