The US supreme court extended a short-term order to continue allowing nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision on Monday.
The US court of appeals for the fifth circuit in Louisiana ordered a ban on shipping mifepristone through the mail on 1 May, but Justice Samuel Alito, who responds to emergency requests from the fifth circuit, granted a temporary stay on 4 May to last until at least Monday’s decision. The emergency appeal to the court came from two mifepristone manufacturers.
