{"id":57108,"date":"2026-05-11T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=57108"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:39:30","slug":"supreme-court-temporarily-extends-full-access-to-abortion-pill-while-it-mulls-legal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=57108","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court temporarily extends full access to abortion pill while it mulls legal challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Monday maintained full access to the abortion pill mifepristone while it continues to mull how to rule in a case that could limit availability of the drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The court on May 4, via an order issued by Justice Samuel Alito, had provisionally blocked a lower court decision that would have prevented the pill from being administered by mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Alito on Monday extended the pause until 5 p.m. on Thursday, giving the court another three days to consider its next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The nationwide availability of mifepristone was cast into jeopardy when the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Louisiana\u2019s request to void Biden administration rules that allowed the drug to be administered without an in-person meeting with a clinician, meaning it can in theory be mailed anywhere in the country, even in states with strict abortion bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/temporarily-extends-full-access-abortion-pill-mulls-legal-challenge-rcna344618\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Monday maintained full access to the abortion pill mifepristone while it continues to mull how to rule in a case that could limit availability of the drug. The court on May 4, via an order issued by Justice Samuel Alito, had provisionally blocked a lower court decision that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[26107,5304,4174],"class_list":["post-57108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-abortion-pills","tag-mifepristone","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57110,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57108\/revisions\/57110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}