Abortion foes urge justices to allow limits on abortion drug

By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for anti-abortion doctors are urging the Supreme Court to allow restrictions to take effect on a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, while a lawsuit continues. The justices are weighing a request from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, makers of the drug mifepristone, to keep on hold lower-court rulings restricting mifepristone’s use.  The high court is expected to act by late Wednesday. Alliance Defending Freedom, representing doctors and medical groups in a challenge to Food and Drug Administation approval of the drug, argued in a court filing Tuesday that the FDA “has stripped away every meaningful and necessary safeguard on chemical abortion.”