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Demonstrators march towards the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court during the “Bans Off Our Mifepristone” action on March 26, 2024. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images for Women’s March)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Reproductive rights advocates breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit attempting to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone and telehealth abortion nationwide.

In Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a unanimous Court ruled the anti-abortion plaintiffs did not have legal standing to bring the lawsuit because they were not harmed by the FDA’s loosening of restrictions on mifepristone over the last eight years.

“This decision is good news for women across the country, but unfortunately it won’t be the last time mifepristone is the target of the far-right’s crusade against this pillar of reproductive freedom,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a long-term advocate of abortion pills. “The Supreme Court dismissed this bogus case on standing, not whether or not mifepristone should remain on the market altogether. The next case extremists bring before the Court will undoubtedly be more airtight and pose an even bigger threat to mifepristone access nationwide.”

The anti-abortion medical providers who brought the case argued they had a right to challenge the FDA approval of mifepristone based on the speculative claim that they were injured because they may someday have to treat someone who has used FDA-approved mifepristone. The Court ruled that this was not enough to challenge the FDA’s regulation of a drug.

The Court did not address the merits of the case, including whether the FDA had adequate scientific support for loosening restrictions on mifepristone in 2016 and 2021 and whether allowing telemedicine abortion and mailing of abortion pills violated a nineteenth-century anti-obscenity law called the Comstock Act.

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