The pro-life plaintiffs sought a restriction on the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been banned from use in 14 states since the overturning of the 1973 Roe v Wade precedent. The Supreme Court ruling is a brief victory for Joe Biden's administration, but future lawsuits are likely to follow.
Hormone-based pills have long been the most common form of birth control in the U.S., used by tens of millions of women since the 1960s. Until now, all of them required a prescription.
The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug Mifepristone.
The court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
Mifepristone, which was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000, has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years.
Some posts even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in states that now ban the procedure. Almost immediately, Facebook and Instagram began removing some of these posts.
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