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The US Supreme Court has blocked new restrictions set by lower courts on a widely used abortion pill, delivering a victory to President Joe Biden

Mifepristone will remain on the market for now with no changes to how it can be prescribed.

The US Supreme Court has ruled on a challenge to mifepristone pills, the most common method in the US, which was brought by anti-abortion campaigners in the first abortion controversy to reach the nation's highest court since its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade

Justices consider appeal by White House following lower court order reimposing restrictions on drug mifepristone

The Supreme Court is facing a self-imposed Friday night deadline to decide whether women’s access to a widely used abortion pill will stay unchanged until a legal challenge to its Food and Drug Administration approval is resolved

The court has given itself until Friday to rule on whether to allow restrictions to take effect on mifepristone as legal challenges to its FDA approval continue.

Lower courts had issued restrictions on access to the abortion pill, used in about half of all US abortions.

The Supreme Court has temporarily extended women's access to an abortion pill until Friday while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect as a legal challenge to the medication's Food and Drug Administration approval continues.

Groups push the US Supreme Court to reject Biden administration request to halt a Texas ruling limiting access to pill.