Appeals court keeps abortion pill on market, but it will be harder to get

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The abortion pill mifepristone will remain on the market for now—but come Saturday morning, access should be severely restricted, a federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday in partially blocking a lower court order.

Used boxes of Mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medical abortion, fill a trash at Alamo Women's Clinic in Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 11, 2023.The abortion pill mifepristone will remain on the market for now -- but come Saturday morning, access should be severely restricted, a federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday in partially blocking a lower court order.

Abortion rights opponents said they were pleased with the decision because it paves the way for approval of the drug to be suspended entirely. It would require the supervision of a qualified physician and the reporting of all adverse events from the drugs. "The FDA followed decades of science and evidence when it expanded access to mifepristone — a court with no medical experts that has a long history of extremist rulings on abortion has no place taking that away," said Kirsten Moore, director of the Expanding Medication Abortion Access Project.

 

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Planned Parenthood prob not gonna like this 'stuff'. That 'Blue' Lamborghini was looking good there for awhile.

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