Circuit Court of Appeals stopped short of ruling that the drug must be pulled off the market altogether, as a lower court had done.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice said that the Biden administration will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, supports abortion rights and last year ordered the federal health agency to expand access to mifepristone.
[1/2]Used boxes of Mifepristone, the first pill in a medical abortion, line a trash can at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., April 20, 2023.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.
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