Supreme Court Maintains Access to Abortion Pill Amid Legal Battle.

The US Supreme Court has frozen lower court rulings that placed restrictions on the usage of the abortion drug mifepristone, protecting access to the drug while appeals play out. The FDA's approval of the drug and subsequent actions that made it more easily accessible will remain in place. The case is the most important abortion-related dispute to reach the high court since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade. The legal controversy began last November when a group representing doctors who oppose abortion filed suit, arguing that the FDA had not done enough to ensure the safety of the drug some two decades earlier.