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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 correspondent, jess parker. this ruling essentially keeps access to mifepristone as it was, open access to mifepristone. what happens now? it is a status quo ruling for now. as you say, access to mifepristone as it was remains, that means women can use it to ten weeks of pregnancy. a lower