this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights, as it defends broad access to this pill, and for the biden administration. president biden has responded: with me is our correspondentjess parker. she has been looking into the story for us. what does this ruling mean? story for us. what does this ruling mean? access continues as it did before ruling mean? access continues as it did before two as it did before two mifepristone which, as you are saying, is widely used in america as part of a two drug regimen for abortion. just colbeck a little bit, there was a judge in texas who said that actually approval should be halted for the time being and then an appeals court basically ruled that went too far but looked to restrict access to mifepristone so you can only take it up to seven weeks of pregnancy, you couldn t ordered by mail, you had to go for an in person appointment. the supreme court has ruled for now none of those things will happen, axis remains as it was,
but that hasn t been possible because of the latest escalation. here s a reminder of why this is happening. sudan s army general abdel fattah al burhan is fighting the leader of a paramilitary group, the rsf, led by general mohamed hamdan dagalo. they had been sharing power since they led a coup in 2021. now though, they disagree on how sudan should be governed. let s go live now to our correspondent kalkidan yibetal in addis ababa, who is closely monitoring the situation. first of all, the sudanese army saying there are plans in place to begin evacuating foreign nationals. what more do we know about those plans right now? plans right now? yes, we have already seen plans right now? yes, we have already seen the plans right now? yes, we have already seen the first - plans right now? yes, we have already seen the first rescue . already seen the first rescue operations in which more than 150 foreign nationals have arrived in jeddah. there was a statement released by the for
ban or curtail abortion, which some have, this is now seen as the kind of next battleground in that fight between people who are anti abortion and people who are pro choice. trier? people who are pro-choice. very interesting- people who are pro-choice. very interesting. jess people who are pro-choice. very interesting. jess parker, - people who are pro choice. very interesting. jess parker, thank you very much. we re joined now by robert barnes, the supreme court reporter for the washington post. robert, thank you so much for joining us tonight. this is a court that had a majority to overturn roe vs wade. how should we read that there wasn t a majority to let this ban go into effect? well, the important thing to remember is this was not a decision on merits, this was something that, as your correspondent said, lower courts had approved, it was a pretty bold move, courts have not said that the fda is wrong to have passed on the safety of a drug before and overturned such a thing, so
the decision temporarily blocks a lower court s ruling in texas that restricted the use of drug. the drug, mifepristone, is used in more than half of all abortions in the us. this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights as it defends broad acces to this pill and for the biden administration. sumi somaskanda spoke with washington post supreme court reporter robert barnes about the decision shortly after the ruling came down. this is a court, as we know, that had a majority to overturn roe v wade. so how should we read into the fact that there wasn t a majority to let this ban go into effect? well, the important thing to remember is that this was not a decision on the merits. this was something that, as your correspondent said, lower courts had approved. it was a pretty bold move. courts have not said that the fda is wrong to have passed on the safety of a drug before and overturn such a thing.
says. in america, women have a right to end a pregnancy, the government can t force them to carry pregnancy to term, it s supposed to be solid law, but this summer, in a weird after-midnight unexplained order a majority of the supreme court let the ban go into effect, despite roe v wade, 100 days ago today, september first and a bunch of entities brought challenges against the ban. today, the supreme court resumed on those challenges and in a five to four ruling they decided they would leave texas s abortion ban in place. abortion providers will be allowed to go ahead with some lawsuits, trying to legally challenge it in lower courts, but those lawsuits don t stand a