Top Court’s Pork-Producer Ruling Could Affect Abortion-Pill Suit

A US Supreme Court decision upholding a California pork production law could be the key to a lawsuit challenging West Virginia’s ban on a popular abortion-inducing drug.

The state’s ban on mifepristone—one of a two-drug regimen used to terminate a pregnancy during its earliest stage—is at issue in the case before the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.

GenBioPro Inc., which makes a generic version of the drug, sued state officials claiming that the state law violates the US Constitution’s commerce clause by interfering with interstate sales of a product that’s been approved by the US ...