HEALTH CARE BRIEF: All-Female Lineup to Argue Abortion Pill Case

All three advocates arguing one of the term’s most closely watched cases over the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone are women, a rare occurrence at the Supreme Court where male attorneys vastly outnumber their female counterparts.

US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar will defend the FDA’s lifting of some safety measures for administering the drug. Representing drugmaker Danco Laboratories is Hogan Lovells partner Jessica Ellsworth. On the other side is Alliance Defending Freedom’s Erin Hawley, wife of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who will argue on behalf of anti-abortion doctors challenging agency action in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.

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