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In a saner judiciary, the case would have been booted out of the courthouse with prejudice.

Abortion-pill access may survive the latest legal challenge to mifepristone, but at least two right-wing justices are eyeing a backup plan: the Victorian-era Comstock laws.

Justices were hearing arguments over restricting access to mifepristone, a medication used in more than 60 percent of U.S. abortions.

In nearly 90 minutes of arguments, a consensus appeared to emerge that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDAs approval of the medication, mifepristone, and subsequent actions to ease access to it, lack the legal right or standing to sue.

But they might give anti-abortion activists a whole lot of ideas for what to do next.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/supreme-court-seems-likely-to-preserve-access-to-the-abortion-medication-mifepristone/">Read More</a>

A Supreme Court bitterly divided two years ago over the right to an abortion appeared to find something close to unity in arguments about mifepristone.

Justices Alito and Thomas just lent credibility to the Christian right’s attempt to revive the Comstock Act.

In one of the most high-profile cases of what has become a blockbuster Supreme Court term, justices voiced skepticism about a case restricting access to a pill used in almost two-thirds of abortions.

Justices seemed skeptical that this group of doctors had a legitimate case against the abortion pill. But Alito may give the anti-abortion movement more ideas.