Whatever the court decides, this will be the most consequential case for access to reproductive healthcare since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Pills are now the most common abortion method in the US; curtailing the availability of medication abortion would be a major blow to reproductive healthcare.
The ongoing legal saga centered on access to mifepristone began way back in 2002, when an alliance of anti-abortion activist groups first challenged the approval of the drug with a citizen petition.
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