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The Justices Pass on an Abortion-Pill Ban

Until they hear a better case.
Source: Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters / Redux

After extending its self-imposed deadline from Wednesday to today, the U.S. Supreme Court finally on the fight to limit access to mifepristone, a pill used in more than . The Court stayed the ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and preserved existing access to the drug as litigation continues in the lower courts. This ruling came on the heels of those from and , both of which not only second-guessed regulators’ careful parsing of scientific evidence, but also hinted that an anti-vice law from the Victorian era, , had created a de

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