Abortion drug ‘Mifepristone’ will be available in America…Supreme Court rejects demand for ban

Washington: The US Supreme Court has given an important decision in favor of women on Friday. The court has refused to ban the widely used abortion pill ‘mifepristone’. The court has stayed the new restrictions set by the lower courts. The court has rejected the new restrictions set by the lower courts. Two conservative judges have dissented on this decision.

The case stems from a ruling by a US District Court judge in Texas that banned mifepristone. US President Joe Biden’s administration appealed the Texas decision, and asked to put the Texas court order on hold.

Mifepristone has been developed by French researchers in 1980. Mifepristone was approved for abortion in France, and was adopted in other countries in later years. In the year 2000, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of mifepristone. As per the rule, this medicine is meant to terminate pregnancies up to seven weeks in the United States. It can only be given directly to users in clinics, doctor’s offices and hospitals.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, 53 percent of the 930,160 abortions documented by the Organization for Reproductive Health Research and Policy in the United States in 2020 were abortions. Took the pill. This was up from 17 percent in 2008 and 39 percent in 2017. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of abortions in the United States. Anti-abortion groups led by the recently formed Coalition for Hippocratic Medicine and four anti-abortion doctors sued the FDA in November. They argued that the agency used an illegal process to approve the drug, which they consider dangerous.

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