this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights, as it defends broad access to this pill, and for the biden administration. president biden has responded: with me is our correspondentjess parker. she has been looking into the story for us. what does this ruling mean? story for us. what does this ruling mean? access continues as it did before ruling mean? access continues as it did before two as it did before two mifepristone which, as you are saying, is widely used in america as part of a two drug regimen for abortion. just colbeck a little bit, there was a judge in texas who said that actually approval should be halted for the time being and then an appeals court basically ruled that went too far but looked to restrict access to mifepristone so you can only take it up to seven weeks of pregnancy, you couldn t ordered by mail, you had to go for an in person appointment. the supreme court has ruled for now none of those things will happen, axis remains as it was,
a judge in texas who said that actually approval should be halted for the time being and then an appeals court basically ruled that went too far but looked to restrict access to mifepristone so you can only take it up to seven weeks of pregnancy, you couldn t ordered by mail, you had to go for an in person appointment. the supreme court has ruled for now none of those things will happen, axis remains as it was, and they kicked it back to the lower court and we could be talking about the supreme court looking again at this issue in a few months but i m try more towards the end of the year. now it is the quo, access to mifepristone stays the same, why is it such an important medication here in the us? it is used in the majority of abortions as part of the stem yacht drug regimen, over 50% of cases for women. and as well it has been approved for over 20 years. so it has been in place for a very long time and i think they broader political point, after the overturning of roe v. wade last y