Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
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Source: AP
Updated 10:55 AM EDT, May 4, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation.
The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
Those rules had been in effect for several years until a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions last week.
The majority of abortions in the U.S. are obtained through medications, usually a combination of mifepristone and a second drug, misoprostol. Their availability has blunted the impact of abortion bans that most Republican-led states have started enforcing since a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed for state bans.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-0533e83d67148fdfec53b1d0d30c1e8a
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/050426zr1_f2bh.pdf
(SCOTUSBlog to the rescue for a link!)
RussBLib
(10,711 posts)But this decision was expected, if any SCOTUS moves are predictable.
Did they use the Shadow Docket for this one?
https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1
LetMyPeopleVote
(181,375 posts)Yeah
BattleRow
(2,642 posts)jfz9580m
(17,679 posts)One way life is less hellish for American women.
riversedge
(81,391 posts)BumRushDaShow
(171,528 posts)Most of the rest are still in the "requesting a stay" stage in their articles. Have been frantically searching for an upload of what would probably be a one pager "Administrative stay" from Alito.
cbabe
(6,754 posts)Scrivener7
(59,982 posts)cyndensco
(1,769 posts)onenote
(46,211 posts)Alito, to ,whom the petition was directed granted the administrative stay and set a deadline for Louisiana to respond to the request that the Fifth Circuit's order be reversed. After the response is filed, the rest of the justices will consider the matter and decide whether to deny the stay request or grant it pending full review of the Fifth Circuit decision.
Scrivener7
(59,982 posts)onenote
(46,211 posts)If he had denied the request outright, the petitioners could and would have gone to any other justice and presumably gotten the requested administrative stay, or potentially, but unlikely, even broader relief. In all likelihood, after Louisiana files its response on Thursday, Alito will refer the matter to the full Court, which will decide what action to take.
Scrivener7
(59,982 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,716 posts)... to send a granddaughter on a "shopping trip" to London, Paris, Toronto, etc.
The ban is a mere inconvenience for the well-off.
Scrivener7
(59,982 posts)lostincalifornia
(5,484 posts)yankee87
(2,851 posts)Republican Party wants to be involved with every part of your life.
AZ8theist
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AZJonnie
(3,942 posts)Heard that from a pretty good source, who's usually accurate
BumRushDaShow
(171,528 posts)Grins
(9,504 posts)2nd paragraph.
Its not over, for the Christian zealots its never over.
DemocracyForever
(113 posts)It's time to call out the "Christian zealots" because the actual facts are that the word abortion is not found in the bible and Jesus never said the word abortion. Methods for abortion have been recorded since 5000 B.C. and abortion was very common in the Jewish culture in Jesus's time.
Buzz cook
(2,912 posts)If a husband suspects his wife is pregnant from adultery. He takes here to the temple and the priest gives her a drink. If she is guilty she looses the fetus.
That's not to mention when god commands that babies be ripped from the wombs of various people groups that he doesn't like.
Zackzzzz
(390 posts)J_William_Ryan
(3,546 posts)The Republican Party wants to interfere with every part of your life.
More government, bigger government at the expense of individual liberty.
BurnDoubt
(1,844 posts)But its those Godless Democrats who want to interfere with your life.
Socialism is coming for yer Libirdies.
EnergizedLib
(3,108 posts)Even if they side against the Fifth, this is a court that makes one good decision out of 10 with the other nine being abysmal, horrific decisions.
FakeNoose
(42,117 posts)This is a drug that will be administered through a doctor's care, and handled responsibly by medical professionals. I can't see this turning into the next "Viagra" ... ever! If I'm correct then SCOTUS made the correct decision.
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Buddyzbuddy
(2,806 posts)And then, has to go home and face his religious zealot nut job wife. Time to run some more flags up her pole.
1WorldHope
(2,116 posts)Thank God so is the great orange one.