Doctor Groups Ask Justices to Undo FDA Abortion Drug Approval (1)

Conservative physician groups that succeeded in getting restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone are now urging the US Supreme Court to undo the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication.

The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and other groups allege in a Supreme Court petition that the FDA approved the abortion medication mifepristone under an accelerated process meant for drugs to treat life-threatening illness despite pregnancy being “‘a natural process’ that many women experience.”

The groups are asking the high court to decide whether that approval and subsequent generic approval were unlawful. If the justices agree to consider the challenge, ...