By EFE
The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of maintaining the mifepristone mailingsa drug used to terminate pregnancies, without the need for an in-person visit to the doctor, which keeps in suspension the order of a court that ordered restricting the availability of the drug.
The ruling, which is subject to appeal, by the highest US court annuls for the moment the decision of a New Orleans appeals court that had restored the requirement that patients pick up mifepristone in person.
The court did not justify its decision in writing.which had the votes in favor of seven of its justices and the dissent of two of its conservative judges, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr.
Mifepristone, in combination with misoprostol, is the most common method for terminate early pregnancies in the United States.
Access by mail has become a key means of abortion, especially for women in territories with strong restrictions on that procedureafter the Supreme Court itself in 2022 repealed its federal protections and left its regulation in the hands of each state.
Abortion rights advocates described the decision announced on April 30 by a Louisiana court as the greatest threat to access to abortion since the Supreme Court overturned the historic ruling four years ago.Roe v. Wade“.
The highest court in the United States had postponed the imposition of what was determined by the state appeals court and its ruling today extends it for the moment indefinitely, although the state of Louisiana, which defends that the mailing of mifepristone should not be allowed in states that prohibit or restrict abortion, still has an appeal.
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