Abortion pill mifepristone gets a 1-week reprieve from Supreme Court : NPR
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Key Points:
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a one-week stay on an appeals court ruling that required mifepristone, a key abortion pill, to be prescribed only in-person.
- The appeals court had ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revert to stricter rules, banning telehealth prescriptions and mailing of the pill, effective immediately nationwide.
- Alito's order temporarily allows mifepristone to continue being prescribed via telehealth and mailed until May 11 at 5 p.m.
- The stay was granted in response to an emergency request from the two companies that manufacture mifepristone.
