It now accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States. Mifepristone has been used for decades in combination with another drug, misoprostol, to induce abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy. The decision will also significantly hamper access in blue states that have sought to maintain broad access to the pills - both for their own residents and for the surge of patients traveling across state lines to terminate their pregnancies. Reining in the drug’s availability while keeping it on the market is likely to dramatically diminish its usefulness to patients seeking to terminate pregnancies in Republican-led states where severe restrictions on abortion kicked in or were passed after the Supreme Court overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion last June.
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