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| Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito |
Last week, the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration. The decision upheld part of a district court's decision suspending the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The Fifth Circuit ruled that the FDA could maintain its approval of mifepristone, but it must revert changes made in 2016, 2021, and 2023 that loosened the pill's regulation.
Alito's extension allows the Biden administration to continue its lax regulation of the abortion pill while the Supreme Court considers the case. The extension expires at 11:59 pm on Friday, April 21.
