US Seeks Hold on Texas Abortion Pill Ruling, Clarity on Conflict

The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court to suspend a ruling by a conservative US judge in Texas that would block access nationwide to a key drug used in medication abortions — even as it sought clarity on a conflicting order in Washington state.

Lawyers for the government argued in their Texas filing on Monday that the “extraordinary and unprecedented” ruling upends the status quo and that the anti-abortion-rights group behind the lawsuit had no authority to challenge federal approval of the drug because the doctors they represent don’t prescribe it to their patients.

Read the Justice Department’s emergency ...