Fourth Cir. Urged to Toss North Carolina’s Abortion Pill Limits

North Carolina’s restrictions on an abortion-inducing drug must be barred because they reimpose limits withdrawn by the federal agency that approved its nationwide use, a doctor and the state’s top attorney say.

“States ordinarily have wide latitude to protect the health and safety of their citizens in different ways,” including by enacting laws that offer additional, important, and complementary layers of protection to those provided by the US Federal and Drug Administration, Attorney General Joshua Stein (D) told the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday. State law, however, can’t reimpose limits the agency deliberately rescinded, he ...