Abortion pills are safe for now — and under a majority-conservative Supreme Court.
In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court rejected anti-abortion groups’ bid to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill.
The ruling preserves access to the most common abortion method in the U.S. Previous federal decisions that reimposed in-person restrictions on mifepristone are no longer valid. The pill will remain widely available by mail and for people to take within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.