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SUPREME COURT RULES TO KEEP ABORTION DRUG AVAILABLE TEMPORARILY

By Daniela Torres

April 23, 2023 (San Diego) - Mifepristone, an abortion pill, will continue to remain available nationwide while a legal battle continues in court, after the Supreme Court issued a stay on a lower court ruling that would have banned the medication nationwide.  


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CONFLICTING COURT RULINGS PUT FUTURE ACCESS TO ABORTION MEDICATIONS AT RISK NATIONWIDE

By Daniela Torres

Image by Yuchaxz, cc 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

April 13, 2023 (San Diego) -- U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas has ruled to suspend the approval of mifepristone, a medication that has on the market for over two decades. But Thomas O. Rice, a federal judge from the state of Washington, has issued an opposite ruling, ordering that no changes be made that would restrict mifepristone. The conflicting rulings leave women and medical providers in limbo, with appeals to higher courts in the works to resolve the conflicting decisions.


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WHAT CAN CALIFORNIA DO ABOUT ABOUT ABORTION PILL RULING? NOT MUCH

By Kristen Hwang, CalMatters

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters 

Photo:  200 mg mifepristone and 800 μg misoprostol, the typical regimen for early medical abortion.  By VAlSiurua, CC BY-SA 4.0

April 12, 2023 (Sacramento) - California’s Democratic lawmakers have spent the past year enacting legislation to protect abortion rights in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s reversal, but a ruling Friday by a Texas federal judge is one thing they can’t touch. 


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