Supreme Court Reinstates Rule Requiring Women to Pick Up Abortion Pill in Person

Supreme Court Reinstates Rule Requiring Women to Pick Up Abortion Pill in Person
The Supreme Court, in Washington, on Nov. 5, 2020. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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The Supreme Court has granted a Trump administration request to reinstate a rule requiring women to go in person to obtain abortion pills.

The nation’s top court voted 6–3 on Jan. 12. to remove a lower court’s preliminary injunction on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule that requires women to pick up the abortion medication mifepristone from a hospital, clinic, or medical office and to sign a disclosure form. Mifepristone, also known as Mifeprex, is usually taken together with the medication misoprostol in order to end pregnancies up to 10 weeks after conception.