Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case today as justices weigh access to widely used drug
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Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case today as justices weigh access to widely used drug

Twenty months after the Supreme Court ruled to return abortion policy to the states‚ the issue will be before the justices again on Tuesday‚ when they weigh a case that threatens to curtail access to a commonly used drug taken in a medication abortion. The dispute involves a series of actions that the Food and Drug Administration took beginning in 2016 that made the pill‚ mifepristone‚ easier to obtain. A group of medical associations that oppose abortion rights have argued the agency acted...