FDA Asks Justices to Keep Red States Out of Abortion Pill Fight

The Biden administration and a drugmaker behind an abortion pill are urging the US Supreme Court to turn down a request from three conservative-led states to intervene in a case with major ramifications for reproductive rights.

Filed Thursday by the US solicitor general and Danco Laboratories LLC, the briefs come in the Food and Drug Administration’s and drugmaker’s appeals of a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision cutting down agency decisions on the abortion drug mifepristone.

Core to the dispute is whether the conservative physician groups who brought the litigation had the right to sue in the ...