The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily suspended orders from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals that would have restricted the nationwide sale and distribution of the abortion medication mifepristone.
The move by conservative Justice Samuel Alito will give the High Court until Wednesday to decide whether those restrictions will be kept in place pending the outcome of litigation over the case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is now on appeal before the 5th Circuit. Last week, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S.