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Carter Sherman and Jessica Glenza

US supreme court hearing not a success for anti-abortion doctors, experts say

Pro-choice activists outside the supreme court
Pro-choice activists outside the supreme court on Tuesday. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

A US supreme court hearing that held the potential to reshape abortion access and the US Food and Drug Administration’s authority did not go well for anti-abortion doctors behind the case, legal experts said on Tuesday.

The consensus is a positive sign for abortion rights advocates, who feared the case would curtail access to medication abortions, which now account for the majority of all abortions nationally.

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