Image: Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, on 20 April 2023. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Melody Schreiber of The Guardian reports: “A federal judge upheld the safety of the abortion medication mifepristone and ordered the Trump administration to examine and consider overturning restrictions on the drug as barriers to abortion access mount across the country.

Robert S Ballou, a US district judge in Virginia, ordered the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) on Friday to reconsider mifepristone restrictions, which the judge found to be arbitrary and capricious.

Previous FDA reviews have “steadfastly found” that mifepristone is safe and effective, Ballou wrote in his decision…”

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