WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Supreme Court has handed abortion rights advocates a major victory, at least for now. In a divided ruling, the court indefinitely blocked restrictions on mifepristone, the abortion pill at the center of America’s latest reproductive rights battle.
Mifepristone is no longer just a pill, but the backbone of abortion access in post-Roe America. Medication abortion now accounts for 65% of all abortions in the U.S. One-fourth of abortions happen entirely through telehealth — meaning roughly 300,000 people a year receive abortion care without going to a clinic. In 2025 alone, 91,000 of those patients lived in states where abortion is already banned.
The case was brought by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, R-La., who argued that mailing abortion pills undermined the state’s near-total abortion ban. A federal appeals court agreed and would have ended telehealth abortion access nationwide overnight before the Supreme Court stepped in to block the restrictions.
Democrats say any restriction would gut abortion access even in states where it is protected.
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