WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court gave itself an extra 48 hours Wednesday to resolve the country's latest abortion deadlock: whether or not women should have access to the drug mifepristone in order to end a pregnancy.
The delay came in the form of a one-page, two-paragraph order from Associate Justice Samuel Alito extending the current deadline until midnight eastern time Friday night.
Less than an hour later in a separate case, a federal court judge in Washington state ordered that the FDA make the drug more readily accessible to women in the 17 states involved in that litigation. "Three Trump-appointed judges have basically threatened the availability of a safe drug … that is used in half the abortions in this country," Sen. Amy Klobuchar told CNN.
The dispute, coming as it does after the decision to overturn Roe, has prompted widespread concerns across the U.S. about the availability of the single most common means of procuring an abortion. But she also suggested a course of action that could keep mifepristone widely available a while longer, even if the Supreme Court isn't ready to make a decision by the end of the week.
A flurry of accompanying amicus briefs filed by Big Pharma stakeholders and legal scholars alike have framed the original Texas ruling as a devastating blow to the federal government's ability to protect and nurture its citizens.
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