US, States Clash in Washington’s Abortion-Inducing Pill Lawsuit

June 28, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

Idaho and six other states urged the Ninth Circuit to allow them to join a case testing federal regulations of mifepristone despite the US Supreme Court’s rejection of a similar Texas-based challenge.

But the court should affirm the denial of the Idaho-led group’s motion to intervene in Washington’s lawsuit to do away with a risk evaluation and mitigation system that governs the drug, Attorney General Robert W. Ferguson said in a brief filed in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Thursday.

Idaho, along with Missouri, and Kansas, are now the only plaintiffs in a Texas lawsuit seeking ...

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