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Anti-abortion protesters demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court's first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Supreme Court dismisses challenge to abortion pill, says pro-life doctors lack standing

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump says states should decide on prosecuting women for abortions

By Christine Fernando - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, March 7, 2024. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in its first abortion case since conservative justices overturned the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court justices weigh rolling back use of the abortion pill

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

$The Supreme Court is seen on Friday, April 21, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court will again wade into the fractious issue of abortion when it hears arguments Tuesday, March 26, 2024, over mifepristone, a medication used in the most common way to end a pregnancy, for a case with profound implications for millions of women no matter where they live in America and, perhaps, the race for the White House. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)$

Biden campaign warns that abortion pill legal case is another impact of Trump agenda

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, according to research released Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, said about 642,700 medication abortions took place in the first full calendar year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Medication abortion accounted for 63% of abortions in the formal health care system. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Woman suffered complications from abortion pill, now wants Supreme Court to decide its future

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a protester holds a sign in support of mifepristone as they march past the capitol following a Planned Parenthood rally in support of abortion access outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, April. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) **FILE**

More women using abortion pills to end pregnancies despite state limits, safety concerns

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Kinga Gebauer holds a sign in front of the Walgreens corporate headquarters during a protest over plan to sell abortion pills at Walgreens Deerfield Headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Supreme Court’s abortion pill battle is about safety — not abortion access, say pro-life litigants

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Attorney generals in 20 conservative-led states warned CVS and Walgreens on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, that they could face legal consequences if they sell abortion pills by mail in those states. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Biden hails CVS/Walgreens decision to dispense abortion pill

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. On Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, the medical journal Sage Perspectives retracted studies claiming to show the harms of mifepristone, citing conflicts of interest by the authors and flaws in the research. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Study on dangers of abortion pill retracted ahead of Supreme Court hearing

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A demonstrator in favor of access to abortion pills places signage about the Supreme Court, Friday, April 21, 2023, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Feds say Supreme Court should uphold FDA changes to make abortion pill more available

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments over abortion pill

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off mail-order access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Supreme Court could drop California’s shield for doctors who mail abortion pills

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. New restrictions on access to the drug used in the most common form of abortion would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, but the Supreme Court will have the final say. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Court lets abortion pill stay on market, but not in mail; FDA’s relaxed rules exceed comfort level

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. New restrictions on access to the drug used in the most common form of abortion would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, but the Supreme Court will have the final say. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Legal arguments over women's access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion move to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in a case challenging a Food and Drug Administration decision made more than two decades ago.(AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Federal appeals court says government’s defense of abortion pill ‘puzzling’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times