01/29/2024

SCOTUS Sets Date for Abortion Pill Oral Arguments

The case over mifepristone will start March 26

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) set a date for one of the highest-stakes and closest-watched cases of the term — announcing it will hear oral arguments on how patients can access mifepristone, the commonly used abortion pill, on March 26.

In December, the high court said it would hear the case brought by the conservative group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine challenging policies expanding access to the healthcare drug mifepristone. Those policies, issued in recent years by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), have allowed the healthcare pills to be prescribed online, mailed to patients and dispensed at brick-and-mortar pharmacies.

The court turned down a broader challenge by the same group that sought to overturn the decadesold approval of the drug for use in abortions, arguments that could have effectively banned the pills nationwide.

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