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Widely used abortion drug remains legal on 9-0 vote
Supreme Court says anti-abortion doctors lack standing to challenge mifepristone
Friday, June 14, 2024
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WASHINGTON — A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court upheld access to a widely used abortion drug Thursday, tossing out an effort to take mifepristone off the market on grounds that the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case lack legal standing to sue.
The drug is used in nearly two-thirds of U.S. abortions available.
The justices – splintered ideologically in other abortion cases – all agreed that the doctors who brought this suit couldn’t show they’d suffered any personal harm from keeping mifepristone on the market.
“A plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the ruling. “The plaintiff doctors and medical associations do not prescribe or use mifepristone. And FDA has not required the plaintiffs to do anything or to refrain from doing anything.”
“Because the plaintiffs do not use mifepristone, they obviously can suffer no physical injuries from FDA’s actions relaxing regulation of mifepristone,” the ruling said.
But the ruling left open the possibility of challenges to mifepristone from other potential plaintiffs, including states.
U.S. Supreme Court Decision
FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (June 13, 2024)
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Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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