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Selena Simmons-Duffin

What's at stake in the Supreme Court mifepristone case

The Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022. (Tracy Lee for NPR)

Just months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a newly-formed group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine sued the Food and Drug Administration, challenging its approval of mifepristone, a medication used for abortion.

On Tuesday, the same justices who undid constitutional protection for abortion will hear arguments in the next frontier of abortion restriction: tightening access across the country for a medication that's used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions nationally.

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