The bill was voted out of the Judiciary Committee on Friday but still faces additional votes in the full House and Senate.
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Here’s what the Supreme Court abortion pill ruling means and what’s next
Here’s what to know about the case, how we got here and what could be next.
Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill for now
The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone.
The abortion pill’s 1992 Supreme Court battle and the woman who started it
Leona Benten was 6½-weeks pregnant when she volunteered to be the test case in the 1992 legal fight over the legality of importing mifepristone.
Abortion pill ruling threatens pharmaceutical innovation
Bringing new drugs to market is already expensive and time-consuming. Undercutting the FDA will only make it harder.
Texas abortion pill ruling threatens FDA
This opens the door to the courts’ second-guessing any FDA approval — especially for drugs for controversial areas like gender-affirming care,’ expert says.
Justice Department appeals Texas abortion pill order
In its appeal Monday, the Justice Department called the decision ‘extraordinary and unprecedented.’
Next abortion battles may be among states with clashing laws
Since Roe v. Wade fell, states with strict abortion bans are trying to reach outside their borders to prevent their residents from getting abortions in other states.
First state law to criminalize out-of-state abortion travel may inspire others
Abortion rights advocates and legal experts say they expect other states to follow Idaho’s approach — and eventually to extend interstate travel prohibitions to adults.
Anti-abortion activists rally at State House
More than 250 people gathered in the Hall of Flags to speak out against legislation that would expand abortion access in Maine.