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mifepristone and would have made the drug substantially harder to obtain. justice thomas, justice alito dissenting from that decision and the fda and drugmaker had strongly urged those justices to step in warning essentially if they hadn t stepped in all manufacturing and distribution of this drug would have come to a screeching halt but for now women can continue to receive the pill by mail and use it until ten weeks of pregnancy while the case continues to play out in the court below. the biden administration just issuing obviously a statement praising it. the groups that filed the suit originally claimed that the fda ignored safety risks, something that the fda and the biden administration pushed back on very strongly, lester. so, laura, legally, what happens next? next steps here? reporter: now the case heads back to a federal appeals court for further evaluation of the merits. the decision was a
temporary issue. just because it came up so quickly, now the case will head back to a three-judge panel on the 5th circuit made up of mostly conservatives but we don t know who exactly on that court will hear this case now that it s back there, lester. laura jarrett on that breaking news. i m joined by peter alexander at the white house. peter, the president as we heard just reacted to this move. what are you learning? reporter: yeah, that s right. the white house has been bracing for this for days. abortion medications have become an increasingly critical flash point, the states limit or ban them after the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade largely because medication can be sent by mail and taken at home. as for the president he just moments ago weighed in releasing a statement that reads in part, mifepristone remains available approved for safe and effective use as we continue the fight in the court adding his administration will continue to defend the fda s independenc
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. facing an 11:59 eastern time deadline, the supreme court weighed in on another pivotal and consequential decision in the nation s divide. deciding what s next for a texas court ruling that said the fda s 23-year-old approval of a commonly used abortion pill is 2340 longer record temporarily paused from taking effect up until now. that has had the potential to impact medical abortions even in states where abortion remains legal. senior legal correspondent laura jarrett standing by with late details. laura, what is the court saying here. reporter: good evening. just minutes ago the u.s. supreme court issued an order to keep a widely used abortion pill on the market. the justices have flatly blocked that lower court decision from texas that had invalidated the fda s longtime approval of