{"id":1043,"date":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","slug":"supreme-court-allows-abortion-pill-mifepristone-to-continue-to-be-available-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency\u2019s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US supreme court<strong> <\/strong>upheld nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28124630-25a1207-order\/\">decision<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency\u2019s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely, arguing that it interfered with the state\u2019s ban on abortion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-upheld\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency\u2019s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}