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And North Carolina enacted a 12-week abortion ban last night after Republicans in the state legislature narrowly overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's<b> </b>veto.

The fifth circuit court of appeals is considering the future of mifepristone after the supreme court blocked new restrictions

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

This policy watch explains the April 21, 2023 United States Supreme Court's ruling on Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case challening the FDA's approval of mifepristone, the medication abortion pill.

Mifepristone was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration more than two decades ago for terminating pregnancies.

Appeals court hears challenge to FDA’s decades-old approval of mifepristone in case likely to reach supreme court

The court is likely to issue a final decision in the coming weeks.

While abortion remains legal in certain states, we believe it’s possible that a court could interpret the Comstock Act to prevent the distribution of any tool used for an abortion, anywhere in the U.S.

Once thought a relic, the 1873 federal law is now at the center of a legal battle over abortion pills.

The Comstock Act, named for a public-morals crusader on a mission to “sanitize” the U.S. in the 1870s, makes a comeback in the abortion-pill battle.