Abortion Pill Maker Says Access to Drug Hinges on FDA Discretion
- Online pharmacies are still providing pills to customers
- Federal judges make opposing rulings on mifepristone access
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As a Texas federal judge’s decision threatens to restrict nationwide access to a widely used abortion pill, its maker says US regulators have ways to let the medication stay on the market while the case works its way through the courts.
The Food and Drug Administration’s more than two-decades-old approval of the abortion pill is in question after a conservative judge sided with those who say the government didn’t approve the drug through the proper channels. That ruling is set to take effect Friday but the US government has sought an emergency order to block the ruling, setting off what could end up being weeks or even months of wrangling over whether it’s legal to distribute the abortion pill in the US.