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Gov. Maura Healey, front right, faces reporters as Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, left, looks on, Monday, April 10, 2023, during a news conference in front of the Statehouse, in Boston. Massachusetts is stockpiling enough doses of mifepristone to last for more than a year Healey, a Democrat, said Monday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Blue states stockpile abortion drugs after court ruling

By Steve LeBlanc - Associated Press

People march through downtown Amarillo to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. Some Democrat-controlled states are advancing and adopting laws and executive orders intended to shield their residents against civil lawsuits and criminal investigations related to providing abortions for women from states where there are bans. (AP Photo/Justin Rex) **FILE**

DOJ seeks a stay of Texas abortion pill ruling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday, April 9, 2023, stressed that women for now continue to have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after the Texas judge stayed his ruling for a week so federal authorities could file a challenge. The drug was approved by the FDA in 2000. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Justice Department calls abortion pill order ‘unprecedented’

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday, April 9, 2023, stressed that women for now continue to have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after the Texas judge stayed his ruling for a week so federal authorities could file a challenge. The drug was approved by the FDA in 2000. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Calls for feds to ignore court order blocking abortion drug are not based in reality, experts say

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Bottles of the drug misoprostol sit on a table at the West Alabama Women's Center, March 15, 2022, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Misoprostol induces uterus contractions that expel an embryo or fetus and other tissue. A federal judge in Texas will hear arguments Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in a high-stakes court case that could threaten access to abortion medication and blunt the authority of U.S. drug regulators. The lawsuit from Christian conservatives aimed at overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The drug, when used with a second pill, misoprostol, has become the most common method of abortion in the U.S. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Biden HHS secretary says ignoring court order against abortion pill is ‘on the table’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Three members of the Women's March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 in Amarillo, Texas. Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Texas judge who sparked a legal firestorm with an unprecedented ruling halting approval of the nation's most common method of abortion, Friday, April 7, 2023, is a former attorney for a religious liberty legal group with a long history pushing conservative causes. (AP Photo/David Erickson)

Competing abortion pill rulings sow broad alarm, confusion

By Bobby Caina Calvan and Ken Miller - Associated Press

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 19, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP, File) ** FILE **

Wyden, AOC urge Biden to ‘ignore’ judge’s order blocking abortion pill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. A federal judge in Texas on Friday, April 7, 2023, ordered a hold on the U.S. approval of the abortion medication mifepristone, throwing into question access to the nation’s most common method of abortion in a ruling that waved aside decades of scientific approval. Federal lawyers representing the FDA are expected to swiftly appeal the ruling. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Judge blocks abortion pills nationwide while another judge exempts 17 blue states

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon gives the State of the State address to the Wyoming Legislature on March 2, 2021, inside the state Capitol in Cheyenne, Wy. Late Friday, March 17, 2023, Gordon signed a bill prohibiting abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature. (Michael Cummo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP, File)

Wyoming becomes first state to outlaw abortion pills

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Erik Baptist, right, and other legal team members with Alliance Defending Freedom exit the federal court building on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas, where a federal judge is expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit that takes aim at medication abortions. Pills are the the most common method for obtaining an abortion in the U.S. (AP Photo/David Erickson)

Texas judge hears arguments in challenge to FDA’s approval of abortion drug

By Valerie Richardson - 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. A federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in a high-stakes court case that could threaten access to abortion medication and blunt the authority of U.S. drug regulators. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Abortion pill challenge goes before judge in Texas

By Sean Murphy and Matthew Perrone - 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. Walgreens said Thursday, March 2, 2023, that it will not start selling mifepristone, an abortion pill, in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did that. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

In the mail? Pro-life, pro-choice advocates turn attention to FDA’s abortion pill plan

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

People gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. (AP Photo/Justin Rex)

White House braces for ruling on abortion pill’s fate

By Amanda Seitz - 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. 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)

Texas lawsuit could push abortion pill off the market

By Lindsay Whitehurst - 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. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

New lawsuits target state restrictions on abortion pills

By Matthew Perrone - 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. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule change that allows women seeking abortion pills to get them through the mail, replacing a long-standing requirement that they pick up the medicine in person. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Justice Department clears mail delivery of abortion pills even in states with bans

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone line a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Abortion opponents who helped challenge Roe v. Wade filed a lawsuit Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 that takes aim at medication abortions, asking a federal judge in Texas to undo decades-old approval of the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Lawsuit seeks to reverse FDA’s ‘reckless’ approval of abortion pills

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times