The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and other groups who sued to try to block the medication “oppose elective abortion, and have sincere legal, moral, ideological and policy objection” to others using the pills, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the unanimous opinion.
But because they did not prescribe the drugs themselves, they could “suffer no physical injuries from FDA’s actions relaxing regulation of mifepristone,” he wrote.
The ruling maintains the status quo in Michigan, where voters in 2022 approved a ballot measure that enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.
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“Mifepristone will remain safe, legal, and available to Michiganders, despite another attempt by partisan, out-of-touch extremists trying to strip away reproductive freedom,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Some abortion rights advocates were reluctant to immediately celebrate, however, noting that while the court’s decision was a net-positive, it is not likely the last word on nationwide abortion access.
Shanay Watson-Whittaker, a Michigan organizer with Reproductive Freedom for All, predicted “anti-abortion extremists will continue attacking our reproductive freedom until they ban abortion nationwide.”
