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- The Supreme Court maintained access to the abortion drug mifepristone on Friday.
- Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly dissented.
- The court took on the issue after a federal judge in Texas issued a ruling suspending FDA approval of mifepristone.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone could still be purchased and used in the US, freezing a lower court ruling that temporarily suspended FDA approval of the drug.
The issue reached the nation's top court last week after the Biden administration submitted an emergency application to preserve the US Food and Drug Administration's 20-year-old approval of the medication mifepristone, which is used alongside a second drug, misoprostol, to end pregnancies.