That pause was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
Alito’s extension means that for the time being mifepristone continues to remain legal and approved for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy. It can be mailed and administered via telemedicine without an in-person doctor’s visit.
Mifepristone is the first drug used in what is commonly a two-step regimen for a chemical abortion. The pill works to kill an unborn baby by cutting off the nutrients necessary for it to continue developing.
Chemical abortions now account for over half of all U.S. abortions.
Federal Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on April 7 issued a controversial ruling suspending the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone on the grounds that approval was given “based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.”
On the following Thursday a three-judge panel from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana granted a partial stay of Kacsmaryk’s ruling while reinstating certain mifepristone restrictions lifted by the FDA after 2016.
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