{"id":1155,"date":"2023-04-24T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:00:46","slug":"listen-mifepristone-remains-available-for-now-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Mifepristone Remains Available for Now. What Happens Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone should remain widely available for now, a decision that maintains access to the drug while the lower courts consider the issue. Julie Rovner, KFF Health News\u2019 chief Washington correspondent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/04\/22\/1171476802\/what-happens-next-for-mifepristone-in-the-courts\">appeared on NPR\u2019s \u201cWeekend All Things Considered\u201d<\/a> to explain the complicated, even contradictory court decisions surrounding mifepristone and what they mean for patients and providers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"fullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1171476802\/1171476803\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, the justices sent back to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals the case challenging the FDA\u2019s decades-old approval of mifepristone. The appeals court previously ruled the drug could remain on the market, but it required the FDA to reinstate restrictions that had been relaxed in 2016 due to newer evidence about the drug\u2019s safety and efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>Rovner said one major outstanding question is whether that ruling would ban the generic version of mifepristone, which was not approved until 2019 \u2014 and is used in many more abortions in the United States than the drug\u2019s brand-name version.<\/p>\n<p>The case has implications well beyond abortion, as mifepristone is used to treat people experiencing miscarriages. The drug industry and others have sounded the alarm that overturning the FDA\u2019s approval of the drug would open the door to lawsuits challenging other controversial drugs, granting judges with no scientific or medical training the power to overrule the FDA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/author\/julie-rovner\/\">Read Rovner\u2019s past coverage<\/a> of the fight over abortion access. And <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/tag\/what-the-health\/\">listen to episodes<\/a> of \u201cWhat the Health?\u201d \u2014 KFF Health News\u2019 weekly policy podcast hosted by Rovner.<\/p>\n<section class=\"block--category-tag-list \">\n<div class=\"category-tag-list__content-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"block--category-tag-list__title\">\n\t\t\t\tRelated Topics\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"category-tag-list__contact-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-us\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tContact Us\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"category-tag-list__tip-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/tips\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tSubmit a Story Tip\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone should remain widely available for now, a decision that maintains access to the drug while the lower courts consider the issue. Julie Rovner, KFF Health News\u2019 chief Washington correspondent, appeared on NPR\u2019s \u201cWeekend All Things Considered\u201d to explain the complicated, even contradictory court decisions surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}