mifepristone
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The Abortion Pill Gets Three More Days. Every Three Days.
The Fifth Circuit banned mifepristone by mail. Alito overrode it. Then extended it three more days. The court is running the clock while millions of women wait.
The Mifepristone Stay Expires Today. SCOTUS Has Not Acted.
Justice Alito's one-week pause on the Fifth Circuit's mail-order abortion ban runs out May 11. If the court stays silent, two-thirds of American abortions stop being accessible by mail overnight.
Mifepristone Can Be Mailed Today. By Monday, It Might Not Be.
The Supreme Court temporarily restored telemedicine access to the most widely used abortion medication after a Fifth Circuit panel banned mailing it nationwide. SCOTUS now has to decide whether to let that ban go into effect before the full case is heard.
The Supreme Court Has Until Monday to Save Telehealth Abortion Access. It Probably Will. That's Not the Point.
SCOTUS paused the 5th Circuit's ban on mifepristone by mail until May 11. The real question is what happens after the pause.
The 5th Circuit Ended Telehealth Abortion. SCOTUS Has One Week to Decide if It Agrees.
Louisiana got a unanimous appeals court to revive an in-person requirement the FDA dropped years ago. The Supreme Court's one-week stay runs out May 11.
Alito Saves the Abortion Pill. For One Week.
The 5th Circuit banned mifepristone by mail. SCOTUS gave it a seven-day reprieve. The same justice who ended Roe is now the procedural firewall between millions of women and a nationwide restriction.
The 5th Circuit Rewrites Who Gets an Abortion
A federal appeals court just restored an in-person requirement for mifepristone, cutting off mail-order access for women in rural and restricted-access states.
The EPA Wants to Test Your Water for Abortion Pills
The agency added mifepristone and misoprostol to its drinking water monitoring list. The stated reason is environmental safety. The actual effect is a surveillance infrastructure for medication abortion.