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What to know about the abortion pill mifepristone

A box containing a mifepristone tablet at a clinic in Missoula, Montana, in February [File: Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]

The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to issue a decision that could affect access to mifepristone, an abortion pill used in more than half of all abortion procedures in the US.

Mifepristone was approved in 2000 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the government agency responsible for determining the safety of drugs and medication. But earlier this month, a conservative judge in the state of Texas issued a ruling barring the sale of mifepristone beginning on April 7.

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