The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments on restriction access to the abortion pill as President Joe Biden’s administration fights to maintain broad access to the medication in a major case that thrusts reproductive rights back on the agenda of the justices in a presidential election year.
The Biden administration has appealed a lower court’s ruling that would limit how the medication, called mifepristone, is prescribed and distributed. Four medical associations and four doctors who oppose abortion brought the challenge to mifepristone in Texas.
Arguing for the administration, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that the plaintiffs lacked the proper legal standing to bring the challenge and asked them to “put an end to this case.” Prelogar said the plaintiffs failed to show, as necessary, that they have been harmed in a way that can be traced to the Food and Drug Administration’s.
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