WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court docket on Friday preserved ladies’s entry to a drug utilized in the most typical methodology of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions whereas a lawsuit continues.

The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone. They’re interesting a decrease court docket ruling that may roll again Meals and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone.

The drug has been accepted to be used within the U.S. since 2000 and greater than 5 million folks have used it. Mifepristone is utilized in mixture with a second drug, misoprostol, in additional than half of all abortions within the U.S.

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