North Carolina Lawmakers Seek Abortion Pill Ruling Reversal

North Carolina lawmakers asked a federal appeals court to reject a lower court ruling that blocks them from implementing limits on an abortion drug used to end pregnancies at their earliest stages.

Congress never intended for the US Food and Drug Administration to supplant further state regulation of mifepristone, Speaker of the House Timothy Moore (R) and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Philip Berger (R) said Wednesday in a response brief. They asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to reject the “novel” theory that federal law preempts the state’s limitations on the prescribing of ...