The US Supreme Court temporarily extended women's access to an abortion pill until Friday as justices consider whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect while the legal challenge to the drug's FDA approval continues. . In an order signed by Judge Samuel Alito on Wednesday, the court indicated it will act on Friday night.
This Wednesday the Supreme Court decision that temporarily froze the ruling of a judge in Texas that revoked the health authorization that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave mifepristone 23 years ago expired.
The Department of Justice argued last week before the court that, if it entered into force, the restriction on mifepristone - authorized in 2000 by the US drug agency - would have serious consequences both for those who want abortions and for the pharmaceutical industry and the fda.
The political and legal battle over abortion was revived in the United States in June of last year, when the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, struck down the right to medical termination of pregnancy at the federal level, leaving the decision up to each state. to allow or restrict it. After that, dozens of states governed by Republicans have restricted this practice.
The organization Planned Parenthood, the largest network of reproductive health clinics in the US, estimates that since then 18 of the 50 states in the country have banned abortion or have severely restricted it, and that in 13 access to this service is In practice, impossible, although there are exceptions.
