Supreme Court Extends Hold on Abortion-Pill Limits Until Friday

The US Supreme Court extended a temporary hold on new restrictions imposed by a federal judge in Texas on a widely used abortion pill, giving the justices until Friday to decide how to handle the case.

The court is weighing a request by the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories LLC, the drug’s maker, to put the restrictions on hold while the legal fight goes forward. They say the curbs will create regulatory chaos and make it impossible to sell mifepristone in the near term. Mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen, is used in more than half of US abortions. ...