02/24/2023

White House Braces for Ruling on Abortion Pill's Fate

The administration intends to push back on efforts to ban it

The Biden administration is preparing for a worst-case scenario if a conservative federal judge rules in favor of a lawsuit seeking to restrict access to one of the two drugs typically used to induce a medicated abortion.

Two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, can be taken by women at home and are used for just over half of U.S. abortions. But that could be quickly changed by a Texas lawsuit filed by an anti-abortion group that claims the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrongly approved mifepristone for use more than 23 years ago.

The case is before a federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump. A ruling in favor of the anti-abortion opponents could immediately shut down the sale of the drug.

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