Abortion Pill Challenge Should Continue, Red States Tell Judge

Three Republican-led states are condemning the Biden administration’s effort to toss their lawsuit against the abortion pill mifepristone, arguing the case should still be heard despite the US Supreme Court’s dismissal of a challenge earlier this year.

The high court’s ruling in June saying the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and other anti-abortion physician organizations lacked standing to challenge the US Food and Drug Administration’s mifepristone regulations doesn’t invalidate an order allowing Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to intervene in the case, the states’ attorney general offices said. The states made their argument in a Nov. 15 filing in the US District ...