FDA Urges Texas Court to Dismiss Abortion Pill Regulation Suit

The FDA is asking a federal court in Texas to toss a group of doctors’ lawsuit challenging the agency’s regulation over the abortion medication mifepristone.

Challenges brought by the the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas should be dismissed by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the Food and Drug Administration wrote in a motion filed Friday.

The request comes after the US Supreme Court in June in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine dealt a blow to anti-abortion doctors and industry associations when the justices unanimously dismissed their case against the FDA ...