Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court in downtown Washington as the nine justices began hearing oral arguments in the case.
Abortion rights activist rally in front of the US Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court on Tuesday was weighing restrictions imposed by a lower court on the drug that is most widely used in the United States to terminate pregnancies.Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court in downtown Washington as the nine justices began hearing oral arguments in a case involving access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
The conservative-dominated court overturned the constitutional right to abortion nearly two years ago and anti-abortion groups are seeking to have mifepristone banned, claiming that despite its long track record it is unsafe.The case stems from a ruling last year by a conservative US District Court judge in Texas, an appointee of Republican president Donald Trump, that would have prohibited mifepristone.
It lifted in-person dispensing requirements in 2021, during the Covid pandemic, allowing the drug to be distributed by mail and prescribed remotely through telemedicine. Medication abortion accounted for 63 percent of the abortions in the country last year, up from 53 percent in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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