
The battle over medication abortion is the warm-up fight as the Supreme Court weighs gutting Roe
CNN
With the Supreme Court poised to undo its abortion rights precedent, the Biden administration is considering a move that could mitigate the fallout from a Roe v. Wade reversal. And red states are already on the march to counteract whatever the federal government opts to do.
On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration is slated to communicate a decision on whether to relax several federal regulations on medication abortion, which would make an increasingly common approach to ending pregnancy more accessible.
Medication abortion, in which a pregnancy is ended in a two-pill process, has become a prevalent approach to terminating a pregnancy. Both sides of the issue see it as the next frontier in the fight over abortion access, as they wait to see how the Supreme Court decides a Mississippi case where the justices are reexamining the precedent laid out by 1973's Roe v. Wade decision.