The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously against a bid to restrict access to a drug used in more than half of the country’s abortions, thwarting the latest attempts to curb the procedure.
In a decision penned by conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh, the high court held that the group of anti-abortion doctors and medical associations who brought the case against the US Food and Drug Administration, which regulates mifepristone, lacked the legal authority to challenge the agency.
Under the US Constitution, “a plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue”, Kavanaugh wrote.
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