Abortion Return to Supreme Court Likely as Drug Rulings Collide

Conflicting rulings out of Washington state and Texas all but guarantee that abortion will be back at the US Supreme Court less than a year after the landmark decision overturning it as a constitutional right.

The Biden administration already said it plans to appeal a Texas federal judge’s April 7 ruling that the Food and Drug Administration unlawfully approved the use of mifepristone for early-stage abortions in 2000. That same day, another federal district judge in Washington upheld the decades-old approval. The administration has sought clarification of that ruling.

No matter what these lower court judges decide, “someone will go ...