High court temporarily blocks restrictions on abortion pill (copy)

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : As a fallback, they asked the court to take up the issue, hear arguments and decide by early summer a legal challenge to mifepristone that anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations filed last year.
55% : "Anti-abortion states are going to do everything they can to restrict medication abortion, but practically speaking people have been and will continue to access it through the mail from international pharmacies," Donley said.
51% : And federal lawyers are likely to be joined by outside parties, including abortion rights groups like Planned Parenthood and even the companies that make the pills.
44% : Abortion by pills involves the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
43% : While the Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional right to abortion, conservative justices have also generally deferred to FDA's primacy over drug decisions.
42% : Still, millions of women will have trouble accessing the pills due to a patchwork of state laws targeting abortion broadly and the pills specifically.
41% : About half of U.S. states are expected to ban or greatly restrict abortion.
37% : "In the short term, those states that ban abortion are going to assume that their bans also include medication abortion and that will be prohibited," said Greer Donley, a professor specializing in reproductive health care at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
33% : Late Thursday, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks.
29% : That allowed several states to restrict abortion and more than a dozen to effectively ban abortion outright.

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