The Supreme Court Keeps Abortion Pill Mifepristone Available by Telehealth

The Supreme Court stayed a May 1 ruling from the New Orleans-based, U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals which would have banned mifepristone from being mailed.

Image: Abortion-rights activists protested outside of the Supreme Court in March 2024, when the overall FDA authorization of the abortion pill mifepristone. It remained available after that case. Jose Luis Magana/AP

 

Selena Simmons-Duffin of NPR reports: “The Supreme Court decided to keep the status quo in place for medication abortion access Thursday.

The high court’s order means the abortion pill mifepristone will remain available via telehealth as a case brought by Louisiana against the Food and Drug Administration proceeds through the lower courts…”

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