The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a bid by President Joe Biden’s administration to preserve access to the abortion pill, setting up another major ruling on reproductive rights set to come in a presidential election year.
The court made the decision Wednesday, two years after it ended its recognition of a constitutional right to abortion.
The court made the decision Wednesday, two years after it ended its recognition of a constitutional right to abortion.
The justices took up the administration’s appeal of an August decision by the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that would curb how the pill, called mifepristone, is delivered and distributed, barring telemedicine prescriptions and shipments by mail of the drug.
The high court also agreed to hear an appeal by the drug’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories.
The 5th Circuit’s decision is currently on hold pending the outcome of the appeal at the Supreme Court in a challenge to the pill brought in Texas by anti-abortion rights groups and doctors.
The justices are expected to hear arguments in the coming months and issue a decision by the end of June in the middle of a heated presidential race.
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