Supreme Court Extends Order Allowing Abortion Pills by Mail
A box of mifepristone pills outside the US Supreme Court in Washington.
Photographer: Valerie Plesch/BloombergThe US Supreme Court extended a temporary order that lets medical providers keep dispensing a widely used abortion pill by mail while the justices debate privately how to handle the issue.
The order keeps a pause on a federal appeals court decision that would require patients to visit a provider in person to get a prescription for mifepristone. The new Supreme Court order lasts until May 14.