40 million more women would lose access to abortion care if a federal court revokes the use of a key drug in medication abortions, data shows.
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A U.S. District Court in Texas could decide this month to temporarily block the FDA's authorization of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to end pregnancies.on a method that accounts for most abortions in the U.S. "It's the biggest thing since [the Dobbs decision]," said Mini Timmaraju, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, adding that it shows how anti-abortion groups "can go after abortion" even inNARAL data first provided to Axios that was drawn from U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed that eliminating access to the pills would increase the number of people without access by more than 2.5 times., 24.
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