What's Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted a ban and other restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone, keeping the nation's most popular abortion method available for now as an appeal of the nationwide ban on the pill plays out. The ban was issued earlier this month by the Trump-appointed Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who ruled the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year-old approval of the drug was invalid. The case is likely to end up before the Supreme Court again after making its way through a lower appeals court. We speak with Mary Ziegler, law professor at the University of California, Davis, whose new piece for _The Atlantic_ is headlined "The Justices Pass on an Abortion-Pill Ban…Until they hear a better case."

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