Medical abortions are usually done with two drugs States are prepping for a future with just one
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Appeals court rules on mifepristone: What it means for access to abortion medication across the country
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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Well before a federal judge in Texas issued his ruling on the abortion drug mifepristone, abortion providers across the country said they had been preparing for what they called a "worst-case scenario."
Now, a three-judge panel on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked part of that earlier ruling, tipping things further into chaos and leaving many wondering about the drug s accessibility moving forward.
Earlier in the month, in an April 7 decision, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas ruled in favor of Alliance Defending Freedom a conservative Christian legal advocacy group which had asked the court to reverse the U.S. Food and Drug Administration s approval of mifepristone, an oral medication typically taken with misoprostol to end a pregnancy.
The group s lawsuit claimed mifepristone is unsafe and that the FDA didn t study it closely enough before approving its use. The FDA and mainstream