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access Thursday. The high court's order means the abortion pill mifepristone will remain available via telehealth
telehealth access](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5810510/supreme-court-mifepristone-appeals-telehealth) to the medication. - 🎧 **Medication abortion today accounts for 60% of all abortions in the U.S.,** most of them using mifepristone
access them. ### How does the single-drug protocol differ from the current standard of care which uses two drugs? Most medication abortions in the U.S. have used both mifepristone and misoprostol because patients experience fewer
access to abortion, have been based on politics rather than evidence, experts say. In 2023, the FDA ended a requirement to prescribe mifepristone in person, opening up remote dispensation via telehealth
mifepristone to ensure that the drug can be provided via telehealth and the mail while the legal challenge plays out. Alito ordered Louisiana to respond to the drugmakers’ requests by Thursday and indicated that
access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5808328/court-restricts-abortion-access-mailing-mifepristone) On Friday, an appeals court had said the Food and Drug Administration needed to revert to rules that the pills, part