Fri Apr 14, 2023 – 8:44 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday tapped the brakes on a Texas lawsuit that could result in the nationwide ban on the lethal pill mifepristone, the first drug in the so-called “gold standard” chemical abortion regimen.
On Friday, Justice Alito granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s request for an administrative stay, temporarily making mifepristone fully available again in all 50 states after an April 7 order by a U.S. District Judge out of Texas to suspend FDA approval of the pill nationwide.
The move comes after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday partially blocked the nationwide suspension of the drug following an appeal by the FDA. The decision would have allowed some restrictions on the deadly drug to take effect on Saturday had the Supreme Court not stepped in.
According to Vox, the Supreme Court’s administrative stay “was issued by Alito acting alone through a process that allows a single justice to temporarily halt decisions handed down by federal appeals courts. Alito is the justice assigned to review such cases arising out of the United States Court of
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