Abortion Drug Rule Case Moves Forward in Hawaii Federal Court

The US failed to convince a federal court in Hawaii to put off a case challenging heightened regulations for the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone until after two other federal lawsuits involving the same drug have ended.

Litigation in Texas, which has already made one trip to the US Supreme Court, likely won’t be finally decided until 2025, and there’s little likelihood that the Hawaii-based lawsuit and the Washington litigation will end inconsistently, Judge Jill A. Otake said Tuesday. Delaying the Hawaii litigation based on either of those suits would be unreasonable, she said.

The Food and Drug Administration originally approved mifepristone ...