The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would decide on the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, the first major case involving abortion on its docket since it overturned the constitutional right to an abortion more than a year ago. The move sets up a high-stakes fight over the drug, mifepristone, that could…
A federal appeals court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case that could determine the availability of a medication used in a majority of abortions in the country. At issue is whether to uphold a preliminary ruling from a federal judge in Texas, who declared in April that the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval…
The latest battle over a widely used abortion drug is set to play out on Wednesday before a conservative appeals court in New Orleans that has become the testing ground for some of the most contentious policy fights in the nation. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court on Friday asking the justices to pause parts of an appeals court ruling that limited the availability of a common abortion pill. The application, in the first major abortion case to reach the justices since they eliminated the constitutional right to abortion…
PAGE 11 Women who have aborted a child — especially through chemical abortion drugs that necessitate the woman seeing her aborted child once it passes — often experience shame, regret, anxiety, depression, drug abuse and suicidal thoughts because of the abortion. Medication abortion is used in early pregnancies, typically before gestation at 12 weeks, and…
The ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval 23 years ago of the abortion pill mifepristone has the potential to be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. But there are a lot of uncertainties — especially because a federal…
WASHINGTON — The dramatic dueling rulings by two federal district judges on Friday about access to a widely used abortion pill set up a lower court conflict that legal experts say will almost certainly send the dispute to the Supreme Court. “It really turbocharges the imperative for the Supreme Court to step in and to…
A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, an unprecedented order that — if it stands through court challenges — could make it harder for patients to get abortions in states where abortion is legal, not just in those trying to…
The drugstore battle Separate from the Texas case, the national divide over abortion is playing out in pharmacies. In January, Walgreens, CVS and other companies said they would apply for a newly available certification from the F.D.A. to dispense both drugs in states where abortion remains legal. But 21 Republican attorneys general — including four…
WALTERBORO, S.C. — Prosecutors trying to convict Alex Murdaugh of murder in the killing of his wife and son revealed on Friday that the two victims had discovered bags of pills in Mr. Murdaugh’s computer bag a month before the killings, disclosing the surprising new evidence of a possible motive before resting their case against…