STAT+: ‘A classic case’: A legal expert on why lawsuits challenging abortion pill restrictions may succeed
A pair of lawsuits was filed last week challenging restrictions on access to abortion pills in two states, a development that opens a new front in the highly politicized battle over the medicine.
One suit was filed by an obstetrician-gynecologist in North Carolina, and the other was filed in West Virginia by a company that makes a generic version of the pill. What both lawsuits have in common is the argument that the state laws are unconstitutional because they restrict access to the pill beyond what was designated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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