Red States Defend Effort to Join High Court Abortion Pill Case

Three conservative-led states are balking at the Biden administration’s attempt to keep them out of a US Supreme Court fight over access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

In a Tuesday filing, Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas told the Supreme Court that the Biden administration posed “no persuasive reason” not to allow the states to intervene to prove they have standing to carry on litigation.

At issue in the case are FDA decisions expanding access to mifepristone that have been cut down in the lower courts. The Biden administration and drugmaker Danco Laboratories have appealed the restrictions, while several groups have ...