All About the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling: QuickTake

The US Supreme Court on June 13 preserved the current level of access to medication abortion, the most common method of terminating a pregnancy in the country. The conservative-majority court unanimously ruled that anti-abortion doctors and organizations that sued in an attempt to overrule the way the Food and Drug Administration regulates the abortion pill mifepristone, which is commonly available via mail order, lacked legal standing.

1. What was the case before the Supreme Court?

The Supreme Court weighed the Biden administration’s challenge of the August appeals court ruling putting limits on access to mifepristone. The appeals court had rejected ...