In an order issued by the high court, the justices said they’ll hear Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine.
The FDA’s case is one of the most closely watched petitions from the Justice Department, which appealed a lower court ruling on the use of mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill.
The pill has remained available during the appellate process, but the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has restricted its use, saying it could not be distributed via mail and used only until seven weeks of pregnancy.
A district court, though, had gone further and said the drug should not have been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration decades ago.
Danco Laboratories, a producer of the abortion pill mifepristone, also petitioned the high court over its production of the pill, challenging the lower court’s restrictions on its distribution.
Mifepristone, approved by the FDA during the Clinton administration, is used with misoprostol to terminate a pregnancy.
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