Generic Abortion Pill Maker Sues FDA to Protect Access

  • Lawsuit comes as Supreme Court poised to rule in Texas case
  • GenBioPro makes most of the mifepristone sold in the US

Boxes of mifepristone manufactured by GenBioPro.

Photographer: Allen G. Breed/AP Photo

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A generic-mifepristone maker sued the US Food and Drug Administration to protect access to the medical abortion pill amid a welter of litigation stretching from Texas to Washington.

The lawsuit by GenBioPro Inc., filed Wednesday in federal court in Maryland, comes as the US Supreme Court delayed until Friday a decision on which restrictions on the pill will remain in place after a federal judge in Texas blocked the FDA’s approval of mifepristone in a separate lawsuit.