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Supreme Court preserves access to mifepristone via telehealth – at least for now
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that patients can continue accessing mifepristone, a medication abortion drug, via telehealth and mail delivery, reversing a lower court's temporary nationwide ban from May 2026. The case will return to the lower court with potential for future Supreme Court review.
Supreme Court preserves access to mifepristone via telehealth – at least for now
Mifepristone is one of two drugs typically used in medication abortions. Carl Lokko/iStock via Getty Images Plus
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that patients can continue to get mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for medication abortion, via telehealth and by mail. At least for now.
A lower court had temporarily blocked this access nationwide in early May 2026. The case now returns to that lower court, although it may well make it back to the Supreme Court in the future.
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