temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the o
[inaudible still legal, continues to be a option for people. one of the realities of th post-roe [inaudible] if the clinics that provid procedural abortions, as the i clinic abortion, are swamped and medication abortion become even more important fo [inaudible in lieu of [inaudible] we are at the status quo o [inaudible four people, but what th supreme court did last night was not make it worse. right if we were going backwards, we are not rolling backward for this immediate moment. in the opinion that he wrote for dobbs last year, justice alito wrote it was time to quote, return the issue of abortion to the people and elective representatives that s a quote from him. that is not exactly what s happening. to the extent there have been, there has been the ability o voters to sound in on th issue. there were five ballot measure last year, some introduced b people who wanted to preserv abortion rights. some who wanted to erode