The US Supreme Court should restrict availability of abortion pill mifepristone, anti-abortion groups challenging the medication's FDA approval told justices in a filing, urging them to implement curbs ordered by a conservative federal judge in Texas
The challengers urged the Supreme Court to reject emergency requests by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration and the pill's manufacturer to halt the April 7 preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo that would greatly limit mifepristone's distribution, while litigation proceeds.to block the restrictions but halted a part of Kacsmaryk's order that would have suspended the U.S.
Mifepristone is taken with another drug called misoprostol to perform medication abortion, which now accounts for more than half of all U.S. abortions.the restrictions on mifepristone in order to give the Supreme Court time to weigh the requests by the administration and Danco Laboratories, along with the challengers' arguments. The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
In a case that could undercut federal regulatory authority over drug safety, the administration and Danco on Friday said that mifepristone might not be available for months if the restrictions are allowed to take effect. Anti-abortion groups led by the recently formed Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and four anti-abortion doctorsThe FDA asserts that mifepristone is safe and effective, a record that it has said is conclusively demonstrated over decades of use by millions of Americans and that adverse effects of mifepristone are exceedingly rare.
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